r,

It's not really meaningful to "open" a prn file "as" a txt or xls. Prn
files are also misnamed "space delimited," which are files that are actually
padded with spaces so the data will be properly spaced horizontally when
sent to a printer as is. They're not very useful for much anything else.
They can be opened with NotePad, and you'll see the data, spaces included,
exactly as in the file. You could probably open yours using the fixed (not
delimited) option of the text import wizard. Read all about it at
www.smokeylake.com/excel. "Text files and Excel."

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"rmoritzky" wrote in message
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how can i accomplish this?