How do you eat an elephant?
One bite at a time

You need to break this problem down into sub sections that are manageable. Bfeider már seo:

• extract data from a text file
  • CSV or plain text?
  • How is the data identifiable?
  • Have you managed to extract the data yet, if not how far have you got?
  • Show us what you have tried
• Add it to the Excel file
  • Select the appropriate worksheet in the Excel file
  • Select the correct row and column
  • Write your data as a string/number to this cell

This is the heart of what programming is, breaking a problem down to manageable sub-problems. Of course there are those who can do this faster, "take larger bites", see an inspired way to grease the elephant and swallow it in one go (stop with the metaphors already). However baby steps first ;)

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