QuickMergeBrowser-based conversion — pasted text and selected files are not sent to a QuickMerge processing server.
Convert TXT to Excel
Short answer: To turn text or a pasted table into a spreadsheet, paste the data, adjust the columns and download the workbook. QuickMerge builds the spreadsheet locally in your browser.
Convert a TXT or CSV file into a real .xlsx workbook, or paste rows straight in. Choose the delimiter, check the live preview, and download. It handles the cases Excel's own import makes awkward — semicolon files, ragged rows, values containing the delimiter — and the whole conversion happens on your own device.
- Free to use
- No sign-up
- Real .xlsx output
- Runs in your browser
- No uploads
How do I turn text or a pasted table into a spreadsheet?
The file is read only in this browser and placed in the editable table input below.
How to convert text to an Excel file
Three steps, start to finish. Nothing is uploaded at any point — the parser and the workbook writer both run inside this page.
- Paste or import your text. Copy rows out of an email, a chat window, a database export or a web page and paste them into the editor above, or use Import a TXT or CSV file to load a file from your device. One record per line. If the data is trapped in a picture, use Image to Excel instead.
- Choose the delimiter and check the preview. Auto-detect handles most comma, tab, semicolon and pipe data. If a column lands in the wrong place, pick the delimiter explicitly from the dropdown. The live preview under the editor is the finished sheet — row and column counts update as you type, so mistakes are visible before you download anything.
- Name it and download the .xlsx. Set a worksheet name (Excel caps these at 31 characters) and a file name, then press Download Excel. You get a genuine Office Open XML workbook that opens in Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, LibreOffice and Numbers — or take the plain CSV instead.
When you'd use this
Text-to-spreadsheet conversion is one of those jobs that only comes up when something else has gone wrong — an export that arrived in the wrong shape, or data that was never offered as a download in the first place.
- CSV-style text that Excel mangles on open. Double-clicking a
.csvlets Excel guess the delimiter and the regional settings, which is how European semicolon files end up in one column. Paste the text here, set the delimiter yourself, and the columns land where you put them. - Copied lists. Names and emails from a signup thread, a list of SKUs from a supplier message, attendees pasted out of a calendar invite — anything already in rows converts directly.
- Delimited output from another tool. Log lines, query results from a database client,
tab-separated output from a command-line utility. - Confidential data you should not upload. Customer records, payroll rows, patient identifiers and anything under an NDA. This is the case the tool was built for: the conversion is local, so the data never becomes someone else's server log.
- Data locked inside an image. If your starting point is a screen capture, photo or scan rather than text, Image to Excel handles the OCR route, and plain OCR is the right tool when you want words rather than a table.
Why convert text to Excel here
- Nothing is uploaded. The file picker reads your file into browser memory and it stays there. Close the tab and it is gone. You can confirm that in your browser's own network panel — the method is on our proof of privacy page.
- Free, with no account. No sign-up, no trial, no watermark, no monthly conversion counter to run down.
- Real .xlsx, not a renamed CSV. The workbook is assembled as Office Open XML in your browser, with numeric values written as real number cells so sorting and formulas work the moment it opens.
- You see the table before you commit. The live preview means a delimiter mistake costs you a dropdown change, not a re-import.
- Quoted fields are handled properly. A value wrapped in quotes keeps its commas instead of splitting into two cells.
Next steps
Related tools
- start from an image — when the table is a screenshot, photo or scan you cannot select.
- convert a text file to CSV — when you want a file out rather than a workbook.
- split text into columns — to check the delimiter against a live grid before exporting.
- tidy structured data first — if your source is JSON rather than rows.
What to do with the result
- file the exported spreadsheets — when you are producing many of them.
Guides
- turning text or a list into a spreadsheet — delimiters, ragged rows, leading zeros and dates.
Browse all OCR and extraction tools, or see every QuickMerge tool.
No completed size benchmark is published for this tool. See measurement coverage and limitations; stated upload limits are application guards, not tested device capacity.
A checked example
Synthetic examples checked in Chromium on Linux, September 9, 2026. The HEIC input is a licensed sample.
Using Comma and headers, this multiline input produces one data row: Name is Example; Notes contains both lines, including the comma. Reopened CSV output. The splitter retains both input records because it has no separate header option.
The value-type input and saved workbook show 00127 as text, 12.50 as numeric 12.5, a 20-digit identifier and 03/04/2026 as text, and a blank third cell with later values still in columns D and E. CSV cannot store these types; choose Text when importing identifiers.
Frequently Asked Questions
The tool comfortably handles tens of thousands of rows in a modern browser. Because everything runs locally, the practical limit depends on your device's memory. For very large datasets, consider splitting the data into batches.
No — this tool converts plain data (text and numbers) into spreadsheet cells. The header row is included as the first row of the sheet. Formulas, cell colors, and styles are not part of the conversion; you can add those after opening the file in Excel.
No. The entire conversion runs in your browser using JavaScript. Your data never leaves your device, and closing the tab clears it from memory.
An unquoted delimiter inside a value is the usual cause. Put double quotes around fields that contain commas, tabs, semicolons or pipes, or select a delimiter that does not appear inside the data.
Use image to Excel for a screenshot, photo or scan. It runs OCR on your device and reconstructs the rows and columns. This page is the faster route whenever you can select the text.
They survive the conversion — the values are written as text. Whether they survive afterwards depends on the column format you set in the spreadsheet, so for postcodes, order numbers and IDs, format the column as text before typing into it.
Converting a text document to Excel without losing the data
These formats look interchangeable until something goes wrong. Knowing what each one actually stores is what stops a conversion quietly mangling a column.
CSV values and workbook cells
CSV is plain text with separators and no stored cell types. XLSX can store typed cells and formatting. This tool creates one worksheet from text; it does not recover formatting or formulas from a source application.
Select the actual delimiter
Comma, semicolon and tab are common separators. Choose the one used by the source, then check quoted values and empty middle cells. Locale alone does not establish which delimiter a file uses.
The output is XLSX
The workbook download is XLSX, not the older binary XLS format. Choose a compatible receiving application or CSV when delimited text is required. Renaming the extension does not convert the format.
Copy a Word table as data
A Word document may contain prose, tables and pictures. Copy a table or prepare delimited text for this tool. The text input does not reconstruct DOCX styles, pictures or page layout.
Value conversion rules
Headers remain text. Non-header decimal strings matching an optional minus, an integer without extra leading zeros, and an optional dot fraction become numbers when the trimmed source is fewer than 16 characters and finite. Thus 00127 remains text, 12.50 becomes 12.5, and a 20-digit identifier remains text. Dates, currency, plus signs, exponents and comma decimals remain text. Empty cells keep their positions. CSV formula-like text gets a protective apostrophe.