I think you have your answer already Just a little tip: set colsep "," -- saves you from having to put the ||','|| between each column Jack On 11/06/2008, Rick Ricky <ricks12345@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I am running a query to dump some rows and I made the rows comma delimited > like this > > select col1||','||col2||','|| .... > from table > > > I set lines 5000. > > > I want to spool it so the spool file does not wrap. This way I can load the > data into excel. The data keeps wrapping and when i import it, I get it > wrapped in excel. its alot of columns. lines 5000 should be sufficient. I > just don't have enough screen space for it all. > -- J.A. van Zanen