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I have text files with tables that were created using lots of spaces to
give the appearance of columns (when viewed with a monospace font). I'm trying to split this text to columns in Excel, but there are two complications: (1) sometimes the text is not lined up right, and (2) sometimes text from the first column spills over into other columns. I'm not sure if this will display in the newsgroup in monospace, but here's an example: Heading1 Heading2 Heading3 123456 987654 101010 This text spills over into other columns ThisData IsNot LinedUpRight 123456 987654 101010 Because of the complications, I can't split using fixed width. One thing that is constant is there is always *multiple* spaces between cell data. So I could do TextToColumns for TWO SPACES IN A ROW, like: Selection.TextToColumns _ Destination:=Range("A1"), _ DataType:=xlDelimited, _ TextQualifier:=xlNone, _ ConsecutiveDelimiter:=True, _ Tab:=False, _ Semicolon:=False, _ Comma:=False, _ Space:=False, _ Other:=True, _ OtherChar:=" ", _ FieldInfo:=Array(1, 1) except the TextToColumns function only uses the first character (won't allow multicharacter delimiters). Does anyone have any ideas? Does anyone have the code behind the TextToColumns function? I could just modify it to allow multicharacter delimiters. I have also thought of finding and replacing multiple spaces with some unique character like {, then using "{" as my delimiter. Minimum coding required for me but seems pretty sloppy. Thanks in advance for your help. |
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