Pasting from clipboard-how to control text-to-columns delimiting
 

I have Excel 2003. I often copy text from other applications and simply want
to paste into excel - not going thru wizards or text-to-columns options.
Sometimes when I paste it parses the data (for example, on commas, etc) among
several columns and sometimes it doesn't. I can't figure out how or what is
controlling this.

At the moment I'm trying to change it back to no-parse but can't figure out
how to do it. Up until now when I pasted it would put everything in the row
in one cell - then the next row in the cell below, etc -- just the way I want
it.

Any suggestions??? -Thanks,
Steve

This may help:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;127132

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Jim
"stebro" wrote in message
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|I have Excel 2003. I often copy text from other applications and simply
want
| to paste into excel - not going thru wizards or text-to-columns options.
| Sometimes when I paste it parses the data (for example, on commas, etc)
among
| several columns and sometimes it doesn't. I can't figure out how or what
is
| controlling this.
|
| At the moment I'm trying to change it back to no-parse but can't figure
out
| how to do it. Up until now when I pasted it would put everything in the
row
| in one cell - then the next row in the cell below, etc -- just the way I
want
| it.
|
| Any suggestions??? -Thanks,
| Steve