>Well I'm not sure. What do you recommend. All I am sure of is that my users want to be able to save a file as text with spaces between the fields so that they can distinguish what's what without having to guess....
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>TIA
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>Jeff T.

I would just to a COPY TO DELIMITED, this will surround each field with quotes. That's a pretty clear deliniation between fields. Can you explain a little more about what you are doing?