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    Redder Lurtz is offline Novice
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    Importing .txt data

    Can someone tell me how I can work out if the .txt is delimited and what the delimiter options I need to select? I've 3 million lines of text to import in the attached format and it's driving me mental. Also, can I create new tables from this single .txt file by selecting only certain headers?

    Many thanks,

    RL

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    looks like a pipe delimeter. doesn't it? why not just use the 'other' option in the import wizard and put a "|" inside the input text box next to the radio button? should be simple as that.

    3 million lines of data might take a while though!

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    Redder Lurtz is offline Novice
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    That's nailed the mother.

    Many thanks.

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    I did it allen. ty

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