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    Notepad replace all

    Hello,

    I am have a large (very large, 138k rows) spreadsheet that a coworker needs in a an .xls format for the backend of an application. I understand that this wont work, due to .xls row limits so, we decided on a delimited file. Whatever wizard she is using (i am unfamiliar with) to import the data into her application gives her the option for a | (pipeline) delimited file.

    I saved the report as a tab delimited file with the intention to do a replace all from tab character to |. I am currently using this routine but....

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    Notepad doesn't seem to recognize the Tab string.

    This is driving me nuts.
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    Re: Notepad replace all

    Hello MMaher,

    Change the FileName and FilePath variables to what you need. This works with Excel 2000 and up.
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    Re: Notepad replace all

    Thank you very much, works exactly as I intended!

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