Introduction

In Excel 365 (only) 2016 (since version 1704) the “Text Import Wizard” was removed. It was replaced by the powerful “Get & Transform” tools. The “Get & Transform” tools also provide a function to import text and CSV files into Excel.

You got the following two options:

  1. Luckily, the comfortably “Text Import Wizard” still exists. You can re-activate and use it for importing text and csv files into Excel.
  2. Use the import function of the “Get & Transform” tools.

 

Restore the “Text Import Wizard”

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Re-Activate the Text Import Wizard in Excel.


The good news: You can easily restore the “Text Import Wizard”. Unfortunately, the option for re-activating them is hidden.

Follow these steps:

  1. Click on File and then on “Options”. Go to “Data” on the left-hand side.
  2. In the lower section of the window you can select the wizard you’d like to restore. For only importing text- or csv-files, select “From Text (Legacy)”. Feel free to also activate the corresponding wizard for importing Access files, files from web, from SQL servers and so on.
  3. Confirm with OK.

Use the “old” Text Import Wizard.


Now, you can find the so-called “Legacy Wizards” in the “Get Data” drop-down menu. In order to use them, follow these steps:

  1. Go to the “Data” ribbon.
  2. Click on “Get Data” on the left-hand side.
  3. Click on “Legacy Wizards”.
  4. Click on “From Text (Legacy)”.