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Convert pasted text into a table (Excel, CSV)

Paste the text. The studio works out how it is laid out, splits it into columns and gives you a table to check and export.

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How to use the Convert Text to a Table

  1. 1 Paste your text with “Paste text”, or drop a .txt file. Or try the example.
  2. 2 Check the preview. The layout (delimiter, aligned columns or Markdown table) is detected; change it if it is wrong.
  3. 3 Say whether the first line holds the column names.
  4. 4 Export as Excel or CSV.

Layouts it understands

  • Delimited text: tabs (what you get when you copy cells from a spreadsheet or a web table), commas, semicolons or pipes. Quoted fields work as in CSV.
  • Columns lined up with spaces: the layout of terminal output and old reports. Two or more spaces (or a tab) separate columns, so a single space inside a name does not split it.
  • Markdown tables: the pipes and the separator row are understood, including escaped \| inside a cell, and the separator row is dropped.
  • Your own delimiter: any text, for example :: or ->.

When the layout is not regular

If the text is irregular but follows a pattern, use “Extract fields from text” instead: a template such as Invoice {number} dated {date} pulls the values out of each matching line, and lines that don’t fit are skipped and counted. Records written as Name: value lines in blocks separated by a blank line become one row each.

Why export as Excel

A table of zip codes or ids exported as Excel keeps 01234 as text. Columns are typed from their values, and you can override them: see keeping leading zeros.

Limits

Columns lined up by character position with single-space separators (fixed-width files) are not detected automatically; use “Split a column” with positions. Text longer than 25 MB is refused.

Frequently asked questions

How do I paste cells from a spreadsheet?

Copy the cells and paste them: they arrive tab-separated, which is detected automatically.

Why are two words in one cell?

For space-aligned text, a single space does not separate columns, only two or more. A name like “Anna de Vries” stays together.

Can I convert a Markdown table back to Markdown?

Yes. Export a table as Markdown; the pipes inside cells are escaped.

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