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Default Applying a | delimiter to separate a series of Zip codes

You want 20,000 Zip Codes in one cell?

Excel 2003 and earlier won't handle that much text in a cell.

32767 characters is the limit..

Not sure if 2007 will do the job.

Or do you just want to create a *.txt file with the pipe delimiter?

See Chip Pearson's site for code.

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/imptext.aspx


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP


On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:09:48 -0800, "Ed" wrote:

Hello,

Using Excel 2002, I have a list of Zip codes (approx. 20,000) in the
following format:

01005
01007
01008
01010
01011
01012
01026
01029
01031
01032
01033
01034
01035
01037
01038
01039
Etc..

I need to separate them by a | delimiter as follows:

01005|01007|01008|01010|01011|01012|01026|01029|0 1031|01032|01033|01034|01035|01037|01038|01039|Etc ...

Is there a formula or a way?

Thank you.

Ed.