Excel - export sheet to fixed-width text file?

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Published on 2010-01-25T19:02:42Z Indexed on 2010/03/18 1:51 UTC
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I know that Excel has functionality to import fixed-width text files where it presents a dialog that lets you choose where the begins and ends of fields are which it puts into columns.

Does it also have functionality where, given an existing spreadsheet, you can export to a fixed-width text file? If so, how do I access this? I have tried using Save As and choosing Text File but it seems to only save as Tab-delimited which doesn't help me.

This is Excel 2003 if it matters.

Thanks,

~ Justin

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