Export excel to txt with specified column placement

[Trista @ Pacific]

I have an excel sheet which I would love to export to a txt file with the
excel columns appearing at specific points of the txt file (i have to upload
this to a server and the fields have to be at specific character intervals.
I could conceivably have 20,000 rows and so manipulating where each of the
former columns appear (11 of them) would be very time consuming.

Is there a way to export the excel document so I can specify Column A to
start at place 1, Column B to start at place 16, Column at place 19 and so
on? I have Office 2007.

Thanks!

 

[Dave Peterson]

Saved from a previous post:

There's a limit of 240 characters per line when you save as .prn files. So if
your data wouldn't create a record that was longer than 240 characters, you can
save the file as .prn.

I like to use a fixed width font (courier new) and adjust the column widths
manually. But this can take a while to get it perfect. (Save it, check the
output in a text editor, back to excel, adjust, save, and recheck in that text
editor. Lather, rinse, and repeat!)

Alternatively, you could concatenate the cell values into another column:

=LEFT(A1&REPT(" ",5),5) & LEFT(B1&REPT(" ",4),4) & TEXT(C1,"000,000.00")

(You'll have to modify it to match what you want.)

Drag it down the column to get all that fixed width stuff.

Then I'd copy and paste to notepad and save from there. Once I figured out that
ugly formula, I kept it and just unhide that column when I wanted to export the
data.

If that doesn't work for you, maybe you could do it with a macro.

Here's a link that provides a macro:
http://google.com/[email protected]