You can paste into Word and use Format | Columns
-or -
David McRitchie has some vba code to experiment with in Excel...
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/snakecol.htm
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buy a commercial application.

Jim Cone
San Francisco, USA
http://www.realezsites.com/bus/primitivesoftware


"cathalog" wrote in message...
Hopefully someone can help me with this.
I have a large data set (2500 entries) in two vertical columns,
i.e.

x value1, y value1

x value2, y value2 .