Question : copy and pasting tab delimited info to an Excel spreadsheet verses opening a text file

I would like to be able to copy and past to excel without everything ending up in column A.

If I copy it to a text file and then I import that text file I can achieve what I want. I would just like to be able to skip the "copy-to-text-file-save-text-file-then-open text-file-with-Excel" step.

Answer : copy and pasting tab delimited info to an Excel spreadsheet verses opening a text file

For the Text to Columns command, you first paste the data into the spreadsheet.  Then you highlight the cells that you're trying to parse (in this case, it sounds like it's column A).  Then you select the Data menu and then Text to Columns.  Select that the data is Delimited then Next.  Select the 'Tab' checkbox (or space or whatever works best) and select Next.  The next screen will show you how the data will be parsed.  Then the data is in the form that I think you're asking for.

Let me know if you have other questions.

Thanks,

sdwalker