• ASCII (DAT, Comma Separated Values - CSV, TXT, etc.)
• Binary
  
• Clipboard (ASCII)
• Comma Separated Values (CSV)
• Microsoft® Excel® 97-2007 workbooks (xls, xlsx)
• These versions can also be opened directly.
• Sound (WAV)
• National Instruments™ DIAdem™ DAT
• National Instruments TDM/TDMS
• pCLAMP® (Axon Binary Files - *.ABF and Axon [Binary] Data Files - *.DAT)
  Note: Origin 8.1 supports pCLAMP v5.2 to 10.
• HEKA
• JCAMP-DX (DX, DX1, JDM, JCM)
• Thermo® SPC and CGM
• Princeton Instruments (SPE)
• FAMOS (DAT, RAW)
• ETAS INCA MDF (DAT, MDF)
• EarthProbe (EPA)
• NetCDF (NC)
• nCode Somat SIE (version 0.92)
• SigmaPlot® (JNB)
• Kaleidagraph (QDA, but not QPC)
• WaveMetrics IGOR Pro
• MATLAB (MAT) (see left menu for additional support)
• Minitab® (MTW, MPJ)
• Mathematica® Lists
• SQL Query tool to bring in data from a database

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Metadata, such as file name, creation date, path, and extracted variables, is stored with the imported data and can be accessed in the Workbook Organizer. You can even add your own metadata.

Import Menu Customization:

  Origin 8.6 supports to specify what file types and import themes to show in Import menu.

Some other features Origin supports when importing are:

• Visually assisted ASCII and Binary data import via an Import Wizard
• Direct reimport of an already imported file
• Recent Imports list
• Nominal and ordinal categorical data support
• The ability to perform drag and drop import

What Data Types does Origin support?

• Text
• Numeric
• Text & Numeric
• Date
• Month
• Day of Week
• Time (includes support for the IRIG Time Format - for example: DDD:hh:mm:ss.#####)