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Default extracting characters at a specified limit to seperate cells

I have a table of multiple parts descriptions ranging from 40
characters to 600 characters in length, in order to import this into my
data base the description cannot be longer than 75 characters, how
would i go about seperating the descriptions at the 75 character mark
and then extracting them into a new cell. Here is an example of one of
my descriptions

SAW MOTOR~KF 62.01~CAPACITY : 1.3 KW~MODE OF OPERATION: S1~MOTOR SPEED
: 3430 RPM~VOLTAGE : 460 V~FREQUENCY : 60 HZ~NOM.CURRENT : 2.85
A~PROTECTION IP 54~INSULATION CLASS F~TYPE : B3~TERMINAL BOX : 3B~BRAKE
VOLTAGE : 460 V~BRAKE TORQUE : 4 NM~BLUE-GRAY~COLOR RAL 7031~WITH
THERMAL SWITCH~WT/160 C~CSA/UL - MOTOR TYPE SIGN~K 62 S/2-G4K~PART-NO.
99324899~DOC-NO. 87160003/50


which essentially needs to turn into 4 sets of 75 char cells so that i
can import them into the comment field in the database i.e.

A1 = Saw motor ....................
B1= 330 RPM.............

etc

thanks for all your help

p.s.

i have about 5000 of these descriptions that need to be extracted (i
also have to keep the ~since this specifies the carriage return for the
print outs)

 
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