Brad

Off the top of my head I would have said have an Excel 
macro check the contents of each cell and if not 16 bytes 
pad it with blanks.

This would work with text cells but I am unsure what would 
happen with numeric cells. I then thought that if the file 
is to be dealt with by a mainframe then presumably there is 
a great deal of data involved and dealing with that 1 cell 
at a time might be unwieldy.

I have no experience of working in this way and have had a 
look at the various books and help files I use and didn't 
get any clues as to the way to proceed. 

If I get stuck with Excel I ask the experts in the Lounge 
at Woodies Office Watch, they really know their stuff.

http://www.wopr.com/

Regards

Tony
Rutland, UK

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