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Default When importing text field Excel chops off leading spaces

On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:52:32 -0700 (PDT), septimus wrote:

Hm. That does seem to work. Maybe not the most elegant solution in the
world, but it does appear to get the job done. Thanks!


Glad to help. Since the method seems to work, you could probably simplify things using a macro.

By the way, when I import the data "delimited", the leading spaces seem to be preserved. But you probably know that.
 
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