Extracting certain characters from a long string

[Stan in South Africa]

Win XP Pro, Office 2003
I have received a text (txt) file with instructions to 'convert this to
excel'.
Each of the 765 lines of the text file is 315 characters long and consists
of data about certain insurance policies.
I have counted the characters as follows (applies to all lines):
Policy number = Characters 1 to 15
Title = Characters 17 to 31
Last Name = Characters 32 to 70
and so on.
I have copied and pasted the data into excel and now have a 'A1' (Down to
A765) cell with 315 characters in it, some text, some numbers. There are now
765 rows in the file.
How do I extract (to a new worksheet, in the same workbook)
Characters 1 to 15 to A1
Characters 17 to 31 to B1
Characters 32 to 70 to C1
and so on?
Thanks in advance.

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

=LEFT(TRIM(A1),15)
=MID(TRIM(A1),17,15)
=MID(TRIM(A1),32,39)

and so on

then select all cells with formulas and grab the lower right corner of the
rightmost cell
and copy down 765 rows


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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom

 

[Reitanos]

If you use the File/Open command in Excel it will bring up the Text
Import Wizard that will allow you to select "Fixed Width." You can
then define the columns on the 2nd step by dragging with your mouse.
And you can set each data type on the 3rd page of the wizard.

 

[Glenn]

Win XP Pro, Office 2003
I have received a text (txt) file with instructions to 'convert this to
excel'.
Each of the 765 lines of the text file is 315 characters long and consists
of data about certain insurance policies.
I have counted the characters as follows (applies to all lines):
Policy number = Characters 1 to 15
Title = Characters 17 to 31
Last Name = Characters 32 to 70
and so on.
I have copied and pasted the data into excel and now have a 'A1' (Down to
A765) cell with 315 characters in it, some text, some numbers. There are now
765 rows in the file.
How do I extract (to a new worksheet, in the same workbook)
Characters 1 to 15 to A1
Characters 17 to 31 to B1
Characters 32 to 70 to C1
and so on?
Thanks in advance.

Select column A.

Data menu / Text to Columns / Fixed Width

 

[Stan in South Africa]

Thanks for speedy answer!

=LEFT(TRIM(A1),15)
=MID(TRIM(A1),17,15)
=MID(TRIM(A1),32,39)

and so on

then select all cells with formulas and grab the lower right corner of the
rightmost cell
and copy down 765 rows


--


Regards,


Peo Sjoblom