When I save an Excel worksheet as a tab-delimited text file, I get additional
carriage returns in rows below the data I'm interested in exporting. When I
view the text file in Word, I see all the additional tabs and carriage
returns.

I've tried going back and clearing (tried Edit/Clear/All and Edit/Delete)
those rows from the spreadsheet and then creating a new text file but the
tabs and carriage returns are still there.

Can anybody help me eliminate these control characters? I guess I could
just copy the cells of interest to a new spreadsheet but I'd like to know how
to eliminate them (in the spreadsheet)....for future reference.

Thanks.