Why are you cuting and pasting a text file into Excel?

Open Excel
Go to File | Open | change file type to txt | point where file is and open
the file


You dont need to "open with" from Explorer or My Computer



"times99" wrote in message
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: I am not able to use the "open with" for excel - I have a registered version
: of excel but the program does not appear in the select list and when I try to
: choose it from browse it does nothing - like it isn;t there. so now I am
: copying and pasting a large text file to excel. any ideas thanks. I know
: there was a post on this two weeks agao but I can't find the post.