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Standard File Formats
Text, spreadsheets, images, scientific data, audio and video, XML documents
Standard file format functions read data from popular file formats, such as Microsoft®Excel®spreadsheets, text, images, audio and video, and scientific data formats. For details, seeSupported File Formats for Import and Export.
You can read many of these formats by selectingImport Dataon theHometab.
Frequently Viewed Topics
- Text Files
Delimited and formatted text files - Spreadsheets
Microsoft Excel spreadsheets - Images
JPEG, TIFF, PNG, and other formats - Scientific Data
NetCDF, HDF, FITS, and CDF formats - Audio and Video
Read and write video and audio files; Record and play audio - Structured Data and XML Documents
Work with structured data and Extensible Markup Language documents
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