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Default Text to Columns with multi-character delimiters

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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