Didn’t work with my example. but this is regexp wizardry beyond my knowledge 
(or my google-fu is weak today)

This is what I had in the find box:

(.(23)) (.(43)) (.(74)) (.(95))

 Sample data

Name                      Alias           Database                    
ProhibitSendQuota    ExternalDirectoryObjectId
----                      -----           --------                    
-----------------    -------------------------
Name1                    Alias1          NAMPR190000-xxxx             49.5 GB 
(53,150,220… objid1
Name2                    Alias2          namPR190000-xxxx             49.5 GB 
(53,150,220… objid2


No matches were found so nothing got replaced.

This was why I loved Columnbo, just drag a marker to the point you wanted the 
column to start and bang it replaced any string of spaces to a tab character.  
Used it to massage large masses of text into tabular data.

On Nov 10, 2022, at 12:09 PM, jj <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 
wrote:

You could try a 'Replace All' with a regular expression using column width 
instead of character positions.

Find:

    (.{65})(.{25})(.{35})

Replace:

    \1\t\2\t\3

HTH,

Jean Jourdain

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