I am trying textpipe on a trial basis.  I need something that can take an EXCEL spreadsheet and write it out in a text format that retains the field spacing.  For example; when I have a 40 byte description field that contains only 15 characters I need it to maintain the full 40 bytes and not start the next field after the 15th character.  I'm moving the text file onto a mainframe and need to have fixed lenght fields for processing on the mainframe.  Seems like textpipe should handle that, not sure if it actually can and what product I would need to use to do that function.  Anyhelp pointing me in the right direction would be appreciated.  Thanks