Tips You can convert OpenOffice.org text documents to Excel with the text import tool. Save the text document with the .txt file extension, open it in Excel and save it as an Excel spreadsheet.

Numbers that are stored as text in Excel can cause unexpected results. You need to convert numbers stored as text to numbers. Here's how!

1] Convert Word to plain text, import to Excel, and save in Excel format You can try this simple trick if you want to convert a Word document to Excel without using a third-party tool or application.