Quote Originally Posted by CADru
From list view:
1. Select the first record in the list.
2. Scroll down to the last record press the Shift key and then select the last record in the list.
3. Right-click and choose Copy As Text from the cursor menu.
4. Fire up Excel (ussing Office 2007 here)
5. Right click cell A1 (on a blank worksheet) and choose Paste Special from the cursor menu. Select Text As source and click OK.
6. Done.

You can take it one step further. Fire up Access and import the XLS or create a linking table for future updates to the XLS.
Use Access to parse the data building a relational DB.
Great! Much easier - good thinking!