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Default How do I prevent a long string of text from wrapping in a text fil

Have you tried formatting the cell to turn off Wrap Text?
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"stevekaz21" wrote in message
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I am saving my worksheet as a Formatted Text (space delimited). One of the
cells has 256 characters. When I open the txt file, the column has wrapped
to
mulitple rows. I have tried to open the file in both notepad and textpad
with
the word wrap turned off.