Another easy way is to install an additional printer (Generic/Text Only) and
associate the printer with a disk file. Printing to this printer would
actually create the file. By setting alignment and print options correctly
you should be able to get the file in any desired format.
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Gary's Student


"Frustrated Excel user" wrote:

If I have numbers in a column in an Excel spreadsheet and I want to import
those numbers into another application (IBM Mainframe), so I have to convert
the numbers to a comma-delimited .TXT file, how do I keep all the numbers
aligned together? My problem is that when I convert it, it misaligns the
negative versus positive numbers. For example:

2.0
-005.2
-006.5
115.9
When I convert these, I would like them to line up as follows in the .TXT
file:

2.0
-005.2
-006.5
115.9

What happens is I see them as this:
002.0
-005.2
-006.5
115.9

My columns are set up as "Custom" with ###.# as their format.

Any suggestions? Is there a way to change the default to where it shows
negatives with a minus sign and positives with a plus (which might line them
up correctly)?