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      22nd Aug 2005
How to I change the default setting when importing a .txt file?


I spend a lot of time converting Excel (Office 2002) files into HTML.
The quickest way to clear off all the Microsoft formatting crud seems
to be to save as a tab delimited .TXT file.


This works well but it is extremely irritating that having saved as
"tab delimited text" from Excel, that the same piece of software cant
recognise its own file when you reopen it! It seems to default to
Delimited and file origin
"932: Japanese (Shift-JIS)" whereas what I want is file origin of:
"1252 : Western European (Window)". However this requires clicking on
the drop-down list (which always takes a while to fill up for some
reason) and the scrolling to the bottom of the list...!


How can I get Excel to recognise the file-type of what it has just
saved?!


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