https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155384

--- Comment #9 from Pierre Fortin <[email protected]> ---
1. my first attachment was the wrong file -- no idea how that happened since
that was not a file I had open.

2. sample file 2 is correct. 

3. I know how to use fixed width; the issue is that fixed width does not work
correctly if there are >= N (unknown to me) rows that *appear* to imply that
ALL data is like these initial N samples.

4. Try it yourself: 

  a) to see the problem as reported:
   - select cell D1
   - Ctrl+down-arrow
   - do you see digits in column D?  That is the issue!

  b) to reproduce the problem:
   - select column A
   - Copy it
   - right-click on E1 or any column to the right; NOT on column A-D as they
already contain data at the bottom.
   - Paste Special > Unformatted Text
     - Fixed width
   - set the divider line between characters 2 and 3
   - Note that the sample display is only 6 characters wide
   - OK
   - check the bottom rows...  is your pasted data in 2 or 3 columns?  Unless
this bug has been fixed, you should have "AH" in column E, 4 digits in column
F, and 1 digit in column G.  With a huge sample of ~1.5M rows, you would see
this in the bottom rows:  AH, 1234, 567 vs the expected AH, 1234567

HTH

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