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Did a complete vista fresh install yesterday and saved my spreadsheets to a spare hd. Transferred them back and the
columns have merged themselves -
Three columns A B C
Horse Price W or L
It's all now in one column like below
Old Nag,1.17,"W"
Hope someone knows how to put them back.
Thanks
Try using the IMPORT function :smile:
Thanks for the suggestion but no luck.
Cannot face amending hundreds of entries manualy - might have to start from scratch.
Cheers
Does Open Office support the LEFT(), MID() and RIGHT() text manipulation functions? Use those (in conjunction with a FIND() if that is supported) to split the text string at the commas
If you've still got the originals - or even not - try copying & pasting as a Word Doc Table before uploading (& or copy/pasting) to Vista -
or
try copying/importing into a Google Doc spreadsheet first... [if do, Format (123 - More Formats button) the SS to accept everything as Plain Text to start with]
I'm gradually Google Doc-ing everything as beginning to prefer life in the clouds:smile:
Might have sussed it but it is thanks to everyone's help that I found some ideas.
Please explain about Google Docs....
Anyway - here goes
Highlight column A
then
Data Text to Columns
Tick comma box
You then have three columns but the W still has the quotes like this "W"
Never fear click Okay
Now highlight column C with the "W"
then
Data Text to Columns again
Highlight the Text Delimiter drop down box to show the quotes
Click Okay
Almost done - although the Open Office spreadsheet showed all was well when
I tried using the file in the Staking Machine the columns reverted back to just one
column again so I copied and pasted the three columns on to a new spreadsheet
with a new name and all seems fine now...
I spoke too soon - although I can fix the formatting - the columns revert back to a single column after saving - just found this out - wonder why it is doing this after my fresh install ......