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re jZed's, suspect either
(1) there's some trick I don't know
or
(2)"simply" may be an oversimplification.

Excel has better luck (for me, anyway) with text files beginning at fixed column locations; takes mucho twiddling to get it to handle tabs correctly if text (of NON-uniform length) includes numerals unless data intended for each cell is double-quoted.

and, <G>, isn't it "don't need no steenkin'...?"

In reply to Re^2: Converting a txt file to excel file by ww
in thread Converting a txt file to excel file by MonkPaul

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