As soon as you close excel and reopen, excel's options for data|text to columns
are changed back to the defaults.

So your testing will have to start with a Data|Text to columns--to change the
options away from the defaults.

John Keith wrote:

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:53:35 -0500, Dave Peterson
wrote:

Try it again.

Put some test data into an empty cell
Select that cell
data|text to columns|delimited, but uncheck all the options
and finish up.

Clear that cell

Then try pasting your data.

Dave,

Your reply seems to confirm the suggestion from the first responent.
After spending some more time with the sptreadsheet I can't even
reproduce the original problem now.

I'll tuck this info away for a future day if I see the issue again.

Thanks for replying.

John Keith


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Dave Peterson