NExS lets you copy data from other programs - spreadsheets, database management programs and word processing programs - and bring this data into an NExS spreadsheet.
Using the Import... operation from the File menu, NExS lets you import columns of values in text format from a data file into a designated range of cells in an active NExS spreadsheet.
The Import Data dialog provides you with several options formats for importing data. The Text file format assumes that the data is aligned in columns with white space (tabs and spaces) separating the data values. NExS uses an algorithm to attempt to determine how to parse the data. This algorithm is controlled by the Import Options... dialog on the Options menu.
The Tab Separated Values (TSV) and Comma Separated Values (CSV) formats allow you to load text files with values separated by tabs or commas.
For the Import/TSV operation, tabs contained in the file being imported are used as the only delimiters and the text is formatted appropriately in the spreadsheet. For the Import/CSV operation, commas contained in the file being imported are used as the only delimiters and the text if formatted appropriately inside the spreadsheet.
You can also export the displayed contents of an NExS spreadsheet as ASCII text to other programs such as text editors.