I am scanning a customers PDF 417 bar codes into excel. The information in
the bar code is separated by equal signs. Is there a way to have excel treat
these equal signs as tabs?

You can do it manually selecting the column ctl H = in the top tab in the
bottom(typically 5 spaces). to do it automatically (don't forget to turn this
off ) Tools-AutoCorrect Options replace = with tab (5 spaces) from this
point on any = will be converted to the amount of spaces. Just remember it
will do it on further sheets as well so turn off when done.
--
-John
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"David Gee" wrote:

I am scanning a customers PDF 417 bar codes into excel. The information in
the bar code is separated by equal signs. Is there a way to have excel treat
these equal signs as tabs?

More clearly stated what I want excel to do is to actually tab all
information following an equal sign to the next cell. Is this possible?

"John Bundy" wrote:

You can do it manually selecting the column ctl H = in the top tab in the
bottom(typically 5 spaces). to do it automatically (don't forget to turn this
off ) Tools-AutoCorrect Options replace = with tab (5 spaces) from this
point on any = will be converted to the amount of spaces. Just remember it
will do it on further sheets as well so turn off when done.
--
-John
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"David Gee" wrote:

I am scanning a customers PDF 417 bar codes into excel. The information in
the bar code is separated by equal signs. Is there a way to have excel treat
these equal signs as tabs?

Oh, that is totally different, won't do it automatically but if you select a
column that has the data in it, select Data-Text to Columns-Select
Delimeted and hit next, check other and put an = in the box then click finish
that will put each piece of data in a new column
--
-John
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"David Gee" wrote:

More clearly stated what I want excel to do is to actually tab all
information following an equal sign to the next cell. Is this possible?

"John Bundy" wrote:

You can do it manually selecting the column ctl H = in the top tab in the
bottom(typically 5 spaces). to do it automatically (don't forget to turn this
off ) Tools-AutoCorrect Options replace = with tab (5 spaces) from this
point on any = will be converted to the amount of spaces. Just remember it
will do it on further sheets as well so turn off when done.
--
-John
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"David Gee" wrote:

I am scanning a customers PDF 417 bar codes into excel. The information in
the bar code is separated by equal signs. Is there a way to have excel treat
these equal signs as tabs?