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Saving Word Form Data for Use in Excel

By James Marshall, About.com

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Save Your File

Selecting Plain Text

Selecting Plain Text From the Save as File Type Box

Select Plain Text from the Save as box and click OK. Word will save the data as a .csv file, which can easily be opened with Excel; Word will insert commas between the fields, and Excel will use the commas to separate the data into cells.
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