Excel 2003:
1. Create 3 column headers a1, a2 and a3
2. Populate column a1 and a2 only, updating say 30 rows
3. Export as a Tab delimiter file.
4. Only the first 16 rows have the correct number of expected delimiters
e.g a1<taba2<taba3<tab
a<tabb<tab <- As expected 2 tabs
c<tabb<tab
17th row
p<tabb <--Missing Tab

The 2nd tab does not exist from row 17 onwards.
Anybody have any ideas why Only the first 16 rows???
Cheers

This doesn't seem to be an exact match since it deals with commas, not tabs.
But it sure sounds like the same situation to me:

Saved from a previous post:

This might describe the problem of too many commas in CSV files:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=77295
Column Delimiters Missing in Spreadsheet Saved as Text

(It actually describes missing delimiter, but if some are "missing", maybe the
ones appearing are "extra".)

(But a lot of programs (excel included) don't care about those extra columns.
Maybe you don't have to care, either???)

Maybe you could write your own exporting program that would behave exactly the
way you want:

Here are three sites that you could steal some code from:

Earl Kiosterud's Text Write program:
www.smokeylake.com/excel
(or directly: http://www.smokeylake.com/excel/text_write_program.htm)

Chip Pearson's:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/imptext.htm



notmrexcel wrote:

Excel 2003:
1. Create 3 column headers a1, a2 and a3
2. Populate column a1 and a2 only, updating say 30 rows
3. Export as a Tab delimiter file.
4. Only the first 16 rows have the correct number of expected delimiters
e.g a1<taba2<taba3<tab
a<tabb<tab <- As expected 2 tabs
c<tabb<tab
17th row
p<tabb <--Missing Tab

The 2nd tab does not exist from row 17 onwards.
Anybody have any ideas why Only the first 16 rows???
Cheers

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Dave Peterson