Accounts Payable Remittance Formatting Instructions for Excel

02.26.2014

Raley’s remittance advices are provided in a readable PDF format which allows you to copy into Excel. From Excel you can then use “text to columns” to format the data. More detailed instructions are below.

1. Open your email from [email protected].

2. Download your attachment directly from the email- Do not save it yet if you are going to do so. (You may save this document to your computer after you have completed all of these steps- We have found that copy and paste functionality does not work properly with all computer systems when the file is saved and reopened.)

3. Position your curser in the upper corner of the box beginning with the first line item and highlight the text you wish you paste into excel.

4. Copy the lines you highlighted.

5. Open Excel and paste these items into cell A1. It will look like this: 6. Highlight column A by clicking on the “A”.

7. Go to the “Data” menu and select “Text to Columns.”

8. Select “Delimited” on step 1 of 3. Press “Next”.

9. Select “Space” on step 2 of 3. Press “Next” again. 10. Select “Finish” on step 3 of 3. Your document will look like this:

At this point you may save your original document if desired. Your PDF has been converted to an easy to manipulate Excel file. Thank you, ~Accounts Payable