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Dave Peterson
 
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Comma separated values files usually contain fields that vary in length (between
records). The comma is the delimited that tells the program reading the file
what goes in each field.

If you want fixed width fields (like for a mainframe application????), you may
be able to just adjust the columnwidths and do File|saveAs (and choose
"formatted text (space delimited) (*.prn)" in the "save as type".

Saving a .csv file with fixed length fields seems kind of unusual to me.

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I am using CSV format in Excel and need to be able to define different
column widths. Is there no way to do this ?

If there isnt a way, is there any other text file format I can use to
store this information in ?

Kevin.


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Dave Peterson