Hi Friends. I download a system-generated html-based report, which I naturally import to Excel. However, when I apply the Text-to-Columns operation, there is usually a bunch of rows which start with a weird character which ruins the consistency of the column, which sometimes causes errors in later operations. Therefore, my question is: I do not want to use the "Fixed width" option in text-to-columns, however, how do I ensure that the first column only is at least of a fixed width/ containing a consistent number of characters throughout the worksheet? Hope my question is clear. Thanks.