You can close and reopen excel (yech!)

Or you can put some dummy data into a cell
data|text to columns
delimited
uncheck all the options
and finish up.

Then clean up that dummy data in that cell.

wraith_oz wrote:

When I've used copy and paste of text into a workbook followed by
Data-Text-to-columns once, excel seems to assume that every future paste of
text also requires a text-to column conversion even when I don't want that to
happen. How do I stop this occurring.

thanks

john bell

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Dave Peterson