Open Excel. Select Blank workbook. Or press Ctrl+N. Enter data To manually enter data: Select an empty cell, such as A1, and then type text or a number. Press Enter or Tab to move to the next cell. To fill data in a series: Enter the beginning of the series in two cells: such as Jan and Feb; or 2014 and 2015.

The fix for the data warehouse BULK insert commands time-out issue that is described in Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2012 Operations Manager Service Pack 1 adds a registry key.