Saved from a previous post:

There's a limit of 240 characters per line when you save as .prn files. So if
your data wouldn't create a record that was longer than 240 characters, you can
save the file as .prn.

I like to use a fixed width font (courier new) and adjust the column widths
manually. But this can take a while to get it perfect. (Save it, check the
output in a text editor, back to excel, adjust, save, and recheck in that text
editor. Lather, rinse, and repeat!)

Alternatively, you could concatenate the cell values into another column:

=LEFT(A1&REPT(" ",5),5) & LEFT(B1&REPT(" ",4),4) & TEXT(C1,"000,000.00")

(You'll have to modify it to match what you want.)

Drag it down the column to get all that fixed width stuff.

Then I'd copy and paste to notepad and save from there. Once I figured out that
ugly formula, I kept it and just unhide that column when I wanted to export the
data.

If that doesn't work for you, maybe you could do it with a macro.

Here's a link that provides a macro:
http://google.com/groups?threadm=015...0a% 40phx.gbl

Mikael Lindqvist wrote:

Hi,

I have a basic excel file with a few columns with data.

Now I need to import this data to my financial system (iScala).

It seems iScala can only import textfile where each value starts at a
predefined position; hence it does not support "tab" or "space" delimited
values.

Does anyone know how to create a text file where all records are
"surrounded" by space and each record starts (at the same) predefined
position?

Example:

3 columns (A, B, C):

Name1 071001 452
Name123 071201 1200
Nam1 070905 51

Notice that "date" (column B) always start at position 9 and column C at
position 18... How to make this from a excel-file?

Kindly,
Mikael
Sweden

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Dave Peterson