Hi I appreciate any help. I've spent the necessary 5 hours googling for a solution to no avail. I am trying to create a tab delimited plain text file. What happens is that when using Macintosh's version of Excel, I save my excel file as a tab delimited text file, it doesn't format it correctly. In finder it shows up improperly as a "Microsoft Excel Text Document" and not as is should be like when I do it in Windows as "Plain Text" document. What should I do. Thanks.