My OS's locale uses the comma as a decimal separator. However, once in a while I need to process data in Excel which is formatted with a point as decimal separator.
Depending on the source of the data (i.e. in a file, or copy paste from a website), I either temporarily change the locale on my Windows 7 OS, or do a find&replace of comma's with points. The first solution is cumbersome, and the latter is not practical/possible if the file contains comma's in other fields.
So, is there any easy way (provided by Excel) to import data in Excel and specifying the decimal separator to be used for this particular import?
Best Answer
On the Data Ribbon under Get External Data the From Text will import text from csv and let you choose the delimiter.
Once set as a datasource if you get a new version of the text file you can overwrite the old one, refresh the data source and it's updated.