"nick" wrote in message
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I have a huge .Dat file which i need to convert in to .xls. I opend with
excel and did fixed length, but i do not whats the correct data that goes
in
to one cell as In dat file all the fields are very close to eachother. any
help?

The data may be separated by commas or other characters. Very carefully and
clearly post a sample from JUST ONE LINE here so we can see it.