I’ve been advising people to post their spreadsheet data as columnar text, as was done [here](http://superuser.com/q/892744/150988), [here](http://superuser.com/q/889201/150988), and other places. This is not very hard to generate. For example, if you have these data: ![image of Excel sheet (same data as below)][1] and you copy and paste as text, you get TSV data: >Company<kbd>Tab</kbd>Person<kbd>Tab</kbd>Number >ACME<kbd>Tab</kbd>L. Fogg<kbd>Tab</kbd>17 >Sirius Cybernetics Corporation<kbd>Tab</kbd>Zaphod Beeblebrox<kbd>Tab</kbd>42 If you have Unix/Linux (or even Cygwin), you can get from that to the desired columnar form with the command `column -t -s$'\t' -o' '`; as in: $ cat data Company Person Number ACME L. Fogg 17 Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Zaphod Beeblebrox 42 $ column -t -s$'\t' -o' ' data Company Person Number ACME L. Fogg 17 Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Zaphod Beeblebrox 42 And of course you can reverse the process by copying the above into Excel and using “Text to Columns”. [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/qh8x6.png