Importing In Excel

Importing CSV files in excel The software for Single Phase Multifunction Meter produces text files in csv format. csv stands for comma separated values. The values of interest are simply separated by a comma. These values can be imported in excel and processed further.

Figure1: File path of “abc.txt” specified. Data will be saved every minute.

Figure2: The file “abc.txt” was created and saved with data on the specified path. This can be viewed in Textpad, notepad, or wordpad.

To Import the text file on Excel. Step 1: In MS-excel, go to file-> Open.Select the text file saved by the software , abc.txt You will get the following window:

Step2: Select the option “Delimted”. Let other options be at their default values.

Step3: clicking on next, you get the window shown above. Select “Comma” as the only delimiter”

Step 4: You can select the fields one by one. Let it be Date for the first one, and General for all other parameters.

Step5: The file is imported. Next, type in the first line specifying what each parameter means

Step6: The first line is inserted manually to specify the parameters.