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Default Column Widths, Importing ANSI txt files

I have a file that is about 140 columns wide, with virtually each column
being set to a specific width that differs from the columns next to it. The
file now exists as an ANSI txt file (with the entire table essentially being
in a single cell). I cannot delimit on any given character because my data
(within the columns has zeros, commas, slashes, spaces, etc.).

Is there a way to take this text file and either during import or after
import "tell" excel to set Column A to 8 characters (and to pull those
characters from the text file)? To set Column B to 30 characters and pull
data from the text file, column C to 1 character.. etc... for all 140 columns?
 
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