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Naomi Naomi is offline
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Default convert excel to text file with no tabs

Unfortunately I am one of the few who have a problem.
The csv file is close to what I need, but I need a space instead of a comma.
I am opening it with NotePad.

I am trying to generate a file to upload to a website for processing and
they have very strict requirements for the layout of the file. I cannot
enter it straight into NotePad as it is 500 records.

The cell layout is as text (even though the data is mostly numbers, but
Excel does funny things with the dates if I do it any other way - I need
04/10 etc).
There are no spaces within the cells.


"Gord Dibben" wrote:

It can be done.........many know how and very few have a problem.

In which application are you opening the *.csv file?

NotePad or some other text editor?

What is the cell formatting of your original data in the worksheet?


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP


On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:40:14 -0800, naomi
wrote:

Thanks - but it still isn't what i need. It puts 3 or 4 spaces between the
contents of each cell. I need a single space. Apparently it can be done,
but no-one sems to know how.


"David Biddulph" wrote:

Other text options are space delimited (.prn) or comma separated (.csv).
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David Biddulph

"naomi" wrote in message
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Hi,
I need to convert an excel file to a text file which is not tab delimited.
Does anyone know how to do this? If I "save as" a text file, whatever
option
I choose, there are tabs between the cells.