Thanks for your help and suggestions.

Regards.

"Frank Kabel" wrote in message
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Hi
no Acrobat Distiller is (unfortunately) no freeware.

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Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

Stuart wrote:
I only have Acrobat Reader 6.0 (obviously FreeWare)

Is Distiller freeware?

This is hopefully a one-off import, so I'd rather avoid the
purchase of new software.

Regards.

"Frank Kabel" wrote in message
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Hi Stuart
you said that the source file is a PDF document. Maybe you can use
Acrobat Distiller to export the PDF file to a different format and
use this file as import source.

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Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

Stuart wrote:
I chose Delimited.

I, also, could see no logic.

The Import Wizard allows a line at which to commence import.
Does it allow a line at which to end the import?

Perhaps then I could import the data in blocks which would
"fit" the column settings.

Is there an alternative to the Import Wizard?

Regards and Thanks.


"Frank Kabel" wrote in message
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Hi Stuart
IMHO the only way to correct this is playing with the text import
settings. what setting did you choose?
- fixed lenght
- delimiters?

Looking at you data examples there is no logic I can imagine to
distinguish good/bad data.


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Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

Stuart wrote:
The data is in the pdf file format, and the only way I know to
import this is via the Text Import wizard. That is how I set up
the columns.

It works for about 50% of the data........not the rest. There are
about 20,000 rows of data !!

Some of the blocks of data do not align correctly with the result
that a column set for one block of data 'splits' data in another
block

eg: | 0.25 | 55 | is okay, but further down in another
block I'd get 0|.25 | 55 |

Here's 'good' data:

10.25 153.78 1.2 85 and now 'bad'

8.75 158.99 78.34 5 doesn't align.

Regards and thanks.

"Frank Kabel" wrote in message
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Hi Jason
some questions:
- How do you indentify a new column. That is why do you insert
'125' and 'D' in column A.
- Does the source data has a amximumn column number or how do
you
identify the last column (the last non-blank?)

So you may explain the underlying algorithm for this with a
little bit more detail :-)
Otherwise this macro would be quite straightforward.

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Regards
Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

Stuart wrote:
After using the Text Import wizard, the bulk of the data is
in an acceptable format, but I'm left with this type of data,
split across columns:

In A2: 126 Prices for Meas
B2: sured Work
C2: s - Major W
D2: orks
A3: D G
B3: ROUNDWORKS

Corrected, the result is:

A B
2 126 Prices for Measured Works - Major Works
3 D GROUNDWORKS

I can locate these records using
If IsNumeric(Left(C.Value, 4)) Then
but I don't know how to proceed further.

Any pointers would be much appreciated.

Regards.


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