What version of Excel?

You should be able to select the column and do "text to column" or when
opening maybe there is an option in the files and types.

"Art Saffran" wrote:

For several months I have been importing a space delimited text file to Excel
by simply dragging the .txt file to an open Excel worksheet. The text file is
then parsed into columns automatically. It's a very quick alternative to
importing the txt file.

Today, after a Windows update was automatically installed, the txt file is
no longer parsed. Rather, it brings in the data rows as a single column
instead of separate columns. Since I need to copy one column, this is a
problem.

Is there a way to restore the ability of Excel to parse the data
automatically when the delimited text file is dragged to an open Excel
worksheet?

Thanks.

--Art