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i have following problem. i have following data: account amount description (usually inv. nos) 3456 55.66 334466 6785 122.12 45678, 98456 i concatenate it , add spaces so that all items are in fixed position, copy and paste special values to another sheet and save this sheet as txt file. problem is that some description fields contain commas and these lines in txt file begin with " character. so txt file looks like this: 3456 55.66 334466 "6785 122.12 45678, 98456 wich makes second line 1 character longer. I need all lines to be the same lenght. it only happens where there is comma in excel. is there a way to go around it. thanks |
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There's a limit of 240 characters per line when you save as .prn files. So if your data wouldn't create a record that was longer than 240 characters, you can save the file as .prn. I like to use a fixed width font (courier new) and adjust the column widths manually. But this can take a while to get it perfect. (Save it, check the output in a text editor, back to excel, adjust, save, and recheck in that text editor. Lather, rinse, and repeat!) Alternatively, you could concatenate the cell values into another column: =LEFT(A1&REPT(" ",5),5) & LEFT(B1&REPT(" ",4),4) & TEXT(C1,"000,000.00") (You'll have to modify it to match what you want.) Drag it down the column to get all that fixed width stuff. Then I'd copy and paste to notepad and save from there. Once I figured out that ugly formula, I kept it and just unhide that column when I wanted to export the data. If that doesn't work for you, maybe you could do it with a macro. Here's a link that provides a macro: http://google.com/groups?threadm=015...0a% 40phx.gbl shark102 wrote: hello i have following problem. i have following data: account amount description (usually inv. nos) 3456 55.66 334466 6785 122.12 45678, 98456 i concatenate it , add spaces so that all items are in fixed position, copy and paste special values to another sheet and save this sheet as txt file. problem is that some description fields contain commas and these lines in txt file begin with " character. so txt file looks like this: 3456 55.66 334466 "6785 122.12 45678, 98456 wich makes second line 1 character longer. I need all lines to be the same lenght. it only happens where there is comma in excel. is there a way to go around it. thanks -- Dave Peterson |
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