Windows server log files

How to open in Excel/Access

[abbeyvet]

I have recently taken over a client site which is on a Windows server now but will soon be moving to a Linux one, with which I am more comfortable.

In the meantime I would like to have a look at the logs for this site, which are stored in .log files on the server and I can pull down via FTP. However I cannot seem to get these to open in Excel/Access as they do not seem to be delimited in any way that I can figure out.

Is there a way of usefully reading these? Am I missing something simple?

The host provides no way of reading them, they will for an annual fee but as we are about to move that is not worth paying.

[Hannu]

Log files are usually delimited with spaces. You can choose that as delimiter in Excel.

[cgrantski]

Yes open with Excel and choose delimited, space. Excel will only open 65,000 lines though.