Export an Excel spreadsheet to fixed-width text file?
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Mar 15, 2026160096 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Excel has the functionality to import fixed-width text files where it presents a dialog that lets you choose where the begins and ends of fields are which it puts into columns. Does it also have functionality where, given an existing spreadsheet, you can export to a fixed-width text file? If so, ho…
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I think the closest you can get from native Excel functionality is Save As | Formatted Text (Space Delimited) (*.prn). It will automatically determine the widths and insert spaces to pad to that width as necessary. Beyond that you need to have a mac…
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