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create fixed length cells & rows in excel as space delimited .prn
Need fixed length cells and rows in excel spreadsheet saved as space
delimited .prn file. The .prn file will be FTP'd to Mainframe computer file (which has fixed length fields (each cell = a field in Mfrm file) in a fixed length record. Is there a way to format cells as text data, with a fixed number of spaces in the cell? Then the client could overtype the spaces with the required data. |
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create fixed length cells & rows in excel as space delimited .prn
The output file won't be space delimited--it'll be fixed width.
Saved from a previous post: There's a limit of 240 characters per line when you save as .prn files. So if your data wouldn't create a record that was longer than 240 characters, you can save the file as .prn. I like to use a fixed width font (courier new) and adjust the column widths manually. But this can take a while to get it perfect. (Save it, check the output in a text editor, back to excel, adjust, save, and recheck in that text editor. Lather, rinse, and repeat!) Alternatively, you could concatenate the cell values into another column: =LEFT(A1&REPT(" ",5),5) & LEFT(B1&REPT(" ",4),4) & TEXT(C1,"000,000.00") (You'll have to modify it to match what you want.) Drag it down the column to get all that fixed width stuff. Then I'd copy and paste to notepad and save from there. Once I figured out that ugly formula, I kept it and just unhide that column when I wanted to export the data. If that doesn't work for you, maybe you could do it with a macro. Here's a link that provides a macro: http://google.com/groups?threadm=015...0a% 40phx.gbl jwarner8 wrote: Need fixed length cells and rows in excel spreadsheet saved as space delimited .prn file. The .prn file will be FTP'd to Mainframe computer file (which has fixed length fields (each cell = a field in Mfrm file) in a fixed length record. Is there a way to format cells as text data, with a fixed number of spaces in the cell? Then the client could overtype the spaces with the required data. -- Dave Peterson |
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