Thanks for your help! However, I need to explain much better:
1. I want the user to paste a text string like GCTTTAATAGTAACCACG (different characters each time, variable length - up to 100) into cell B3. Wish I could show you my file!
2. I need each character in a separate cell (in the same row): G in B4, C in C4, T in D4 and so on.
3. In order to do so I thought of somehow inserting a delimiter character after each letter in the text string, a comma would be fine. This delimited text is now in B3.
4. I made the VBA script below to copy B3 to B4 and use TextToColumns to distribute the delimited characters in B4 into B4:CW4.
Sub Enter()
'
' Enter Macro
' Macro recorded 8/28/2008 by Bernard Hane
'
' Keyboard Shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+E
'
Range("B4:CW4").Select
Selection.ClearContents
Range("B3").Select
Selection.Copy
Range("B4").Select
ActiveSheet.Paste
Application.CutCopyMode = False
Range("B4").Select
Selection.TextToColumns Destination:=Range("B4"), DataType:=xlDelimited, _
TextQualifier:=xlDoubleQuote, ConsecutiveDelimiter:=False, Tab:=False, _
Semicolon:=False, Comma:=True, Space:=False, Other:=False, FieldInfo _
:=Array(Array(1, 1), Array(2, 1), Array(3, 1), Array(4, 1), Array(5, 1), Array(6, 1), _
Array(7, 1), Array(8, 1), Array(9, 1), Array(10, 1), Array(11, 1), Array(12, 1), Array(13, 1 _
), Array(14, 1), Array(15, 1), Array(16, 1), Array(17, 1), Array(18, 1), Array(19, 1), Array _
(20, 1), Array(21, 1), Array(22, 1), Array(23, 1), Array(24, 1), Array(25, 1), Array(26, 1), _
Array(27, 1), Array(28, 1), Array(29, 1), Array(30, 1), Array(31, 1), Array(32, 1), Array( _
33, 1), Array(34, 1), Array(35, 1), Array(36, 1), Array(37, 1), Array(38, 1), Array(39, 1), _
Array(40, 1), Array(41, 1), Array(42, 1), Array(43, 1), Array(44, 1), Array(45, 1), Array( _
46, 1), Array(47, 1), Array(48, 1), Array(49, 1), Array(50, 1), Array(51, 1), Array(52, 1), _
Array(53, 1), Array(54, 1), Array(55, 1), Array(56, 1), Array(57, 1), Array(58, 1), Array( _
59, 1), Array(60, 1), Array(61, 1), Array(62, 1), Array(63, 1), Array(64, 1), Array(65, 1), _
Array(66, 1), Array(67, 1), Array(68, 1), Array(69, 1), Array(70, 1), Array(71, 1), Array( _
72, 1), Array(73, 1), Array(74, 1), Array(75, 1), Array(76, 1), Array(77, 1), Array(78, 1), _
Array(79, 1), Array(80, 1), Array(81, 1), Array(82, 1), Array(83, 1), Array(84, 1), Array( _
85, 1), Array(86, 1), Array(87, 1), Array(88, 1), Array(89, 1), Array(90, 1), Array(91, 1), _
Array(92, 1), Array(93, 1), Array(94, 1), Array(95, 1), Array(96, 1), Array(97, 1), Array( _
98, 1), Array(99, 1), Array(100, 1)), TrailingMinusNumbers:=True
Range("B4").Select
With Selection
.HorizontalAlignment = xlCenter
.VerticalAlignment = xlCenter
.WrapText = True
.Orientation = 0
.AddIndent = False
.IndentLevel = 0
.ShrinkToFit = False
.ReadingOrder = xlContext
.MergeCells = False
End With
End Sub
This macro works fine but it requires the user to have comma-delimited text. Perhaps you know of a much better way to do this. Thanks again!