Have you tried highlighting the column with the data in and clicking
Data | Text-to-columns? This will bring up a wizard and if you select
space as the delimiter it will split your data into different columns
wherever there is a space. This might mean that your description is
split into a few columns, but you can then re-combine these using the &
operator.
Hope this helps.
Pete
> I was able to import my text files into a spreadsheet, but here is what
> I need to do next and I hope there is an easier way to do this through
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> Michael
stars75238 - 16 Sep 2006 05:23 GMT
I have not tried this yet, will do that now and see what happens. To
sound totally amatuer, how would I recombine hte columns? The reason I
ask is there are going to be about 1500 lines on the spredsheet, some
descriptions have 20 words, others have 5 and still others have 30. So
how can I do them all with one pass thourgh? Maybe run a concat
operation on the first 40 columns and let there be blanks in the
others? Makes sense to me, so it is probably wrong.
Pete thanks again for the suggestion, I am going to try this tomorrow.
Michael