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Instructions

How to work with the files .TXT and .ZIP in Excel:                  

  • Right click dataset and "save target as…" on your computer
  • For the Data Files (.ZIP) Only:            Open zip file and extract .txt file to your computer
  • Open Excel
  • Click "From Text" under the "Data" tab
  • Select the .txt file and click "Import"
  • Choose "Delimited" and "Next"
  • Unclick "Tab" and click "Other": and type | in box
  • Choose "Next" and "Finish"
  • Choose "Existing" or "New" worksheet and assign a name
  • Click "OK"

Please note that the updates are a complete replacement of the current files. In order to prevent duplicate records, you will need to overwrite previous versions of your data sets.