You don't need to. Just do Data=Text to Columns and walk through the
wizard.

An alternative would be to just open the file by using file=Open which
should walk you through the same wizard as above.
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HI

I have the text in the notepad imported from a file.

DATE FINAL DATE NAME AMT1 AMT2 VALUE

3/31/2003 6/02/2003 THOMAS 4.950 15.00 693.00
3/31/2003 6/02/2003 HARI 7.220 15.00 693.00
3/31/2003 6/02/2003 THOMAS 4.950 15.00 693.00

and so on...

Now from the notepad , i had pasted in the excel column A.
this shows the record in column A.

how can i write a macro to paste the fields each on a column.

PLEASE HELP


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