Hi - I have to edit a 26,000 row space delimited text file (1500 byte width).
I can open it in Excel 2002 and edit it fine .... but when I save the file
back out to Text/Space Delimited the save 'folds' the file so the first
26,000 rows are the first section of the 1500 byte rows and the second 26000
rows are the last section of the 1500 byte rows. I can save the file in csv,
spreadsheet etc - but I need the file to be saved out space delimited.

Can save out of data to space delimited files be done for files this wide?
(1500 bytes) in either Excel 2002 or Excel 2007? OR - do we have another
option?

You mean you're using "formatted Text (Space delimited)(*.prn)"?

Saved from a previous post:

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

Thanks - KVH wrote:

Hi - I have to edit a 26,000 row space delimited text file (1500 byte width).
I can open it in Excel 2002 and edit it fine .... but when I save the file
back out to Text/Space Delimited the save 'folds' the file so the first
26,000 rows are the first section of the 1500 byte rows and the second 26000
rows are the last section of the 1500 byte rows. I can save the file in csv,
spreadsheet etc - but I need the file to be saved out space delimited.

Can save out of data to space delimited files be done for files this wide?
(1500 bytes) in either Excel 2002 or Excel 2007? OR - do we have another
option?

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Dave Peterson