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  • A AspDotNetDev

    Convert the spaces to tabs before pasting?

    Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut!

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    LloydA111
    wrote on last edited by
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    Didn't think of that... It's 4.30 AM afterall :^) *brain fart*

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    • A AspDotNetDev

      Convert the spaces to tabs before pasting?

      Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut!

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      AlphaDeltaTheta
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      AspDotNetDev wrote:

      Convert the spaces to tabs before pasting?

      Tab separated values... why not comma separated????

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      • A AlphaDeltaTheta

        AspDotNetDev wrote:

        Convert the spaces to tabs before pasting?

        Tab separated values... why not comma separated????

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        AspDotNetDev
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        Why not interrobang separated‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽... ... ‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽

        Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut!

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        • A AspDotNetDev

          Why not interrobang separated‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽... ... ‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽

          Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut!

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          AlphaDeltaTheta
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          Did we have something like this... ISV => Introbang separated values? *AFAIK, ISV == Independent Software Vendor

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          • A AlphaDeltaTheta

            Did we have something like this... ISV => Introbang separated values? *AFAIK, ISV == Independent Software Vendor

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            Amitosh Swain wrote:

            ISV == Independent Software Vendor

            Nope: International Standard Version

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            • L LloydA111

              I'm trying to paste some values into a sheet. These are my values:

              1:11 9.812
              1:21 10.0
              1:31 9.937
              1:41 9.875
              1:51 9.875
              2:1 9.937
              2:11 9.75

              Theres a space separating the values yet when I paste it into Excel it puts everything into one column. I'm trying to make it paste the values on the left into one column and the values on the right of the space into the column next to it. I'm sure I've done this before with no problem. Any clues?! :)

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              Marc Clifton
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              Save it as a text file, import it, and tell Excel the delimiter is a space (somewhere in one of the import wizard pages.) Marc

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              • A AlphaDeltaTheta

                AspDotNetDev wrote:

                Convert the spaces to tabs before pasting?

                Tab separated values... why not comma separated????

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                Jorgen Andersson
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                You should avoid Commas as separation character. Commas are quite generally used for many purposes, for example, most non anglicised countries use decimal comma rather than decimal point. There are plenty more places where commas are used while the tab is used for, wait for it, tabulation.

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                • L LloydA111

                  I'm trying to paste some values into a sheet. These are my values:

                  1:11 9.812
                  1:21 10.0
                  1:31 9.937
                  1:41 9.875
                  1:51 9.875
                  2:1 9.937
                  2:11 9.75

                  Theres a space separating the values yet when I paste it into Excel it puts everything into one column. I'm trying to make it paste the values on the left into one column and the values on the right of the space into the column next to it. I'm sure I've done this before with no problem. Any clues?! :)

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                        |-|-|    ||LI  o ||
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                  Mark_Wallace
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                  #11

                  Lloyd Atkinson wrote:

                  Any clues?!

                  Why are the files called "**Tsv", rather than "S**sv"? Elementary, my dear Watson.

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                  • L LloydA111

                    I'm trying to paste some values into a sheet. These are my values:

                    1:11 9.812
                    1:21 10.0
                    1:31 9.937
                    1:41 9.875
                    1:51 9.875
                    2:1 9.937
                    2:11 9.75

                    Theres a space separating the values yet when I paste it into Excel it puts everything into one column. I'm trying to make it paste the values on the left into one column and the values on the right of the space into the column next to it. I'm sure I've done this before with no problem. Any clues?! :)

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                          |\_|\_|    ||" ||  ||
                          |-|-|    ||LI  o ||
                          |\_|\_|    ||'----'||
                         /\_/ \\\_\\  /\_\_|    |\_\_\\
                    
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                    Duke Carey
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                    After you've pasted the values in to Excel, select the single column and, if you're using Excel 2007 or later, go to the Data tab and choose Text to columns. If using pre-2007 Excel, use the Data menu. Can't remember the menu choices, but the key stroke shortcut is Alt-D, E, so it may be Data->Text to columns there, too. That'll start a wizard which will allow you to split the data based on Fixed length or Delimited, and therein you can choose the space, a comma, a Tab, or some other delimiter

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                    • L LloydA111

                      I'm trying to paste some values into a sheet. These are my values:

                      1:11 9.812
                      1:21 10.0
                      1:31 9.937
                      1:41 9.875
                      1:51 9.875
                      2:1 9.937
                      2:11 9.75

                      Theres a space separating the values yet when I paste it into Excel it puts everything into one column. I'm trying to make it paste the values on the left into one column and the values on the right of the space into the column next to it. I'm sure I've done this before with no problem. Any clues?! :)

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                            |\_|\_|    ||" ||  ||
                            |-|-|    ||LI  o ||
                            |\_|\_|    ||'----'||
                           /\_/ \\\_\\  /\_\_|    |\_\_\\
                      
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                      Dan Neely
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                      The Rube Goldberg solution: Convert it to an HTML table, open it in IE, and copy/paste from there. Pasting tabular data into Excel is one of the very few things IE does better than the competition.

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