text to column basic help

jrosales

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Hello. My apologies if this was previously discussed. My work just switched me to a new computer. I am now running Windows 7 from XP and I am now on Excel 2013 from 2007. I am trying to import a fixed with text file to excel. I clicked on Data>Get External Data>From Text and attempted to add the break lines as I have in the past but the number of columns I have is larger than the window. When I scroll to the right. My previous break lines shift so I no longer capture the data as intended. Is there a setting I need to activate or a patch I need to download? I don't know if I am using the right terminology but I can't find any other discussion of this online.

I know I can probably do this in multiple steps but for automation purposes, this defeats the purpose.

Thanks,
Josh
 

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