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- Open the .txt file in Word.
- Convert the text to a table. Highlight it all. To convert, go to the "Insert" tab and select "Table" "Convert Text to Table."
- Increase the size of the page so that you can see what's going on. Go to "Page Layout" and select "Size" "More Paper Sizes." Make the width and height both 22." When prompted, click "Ignore."
- Scroll down your file to find where the table mis-aligns. Likely a portion of the abstract immediately before the misalignment is partially in the identifier field, and could extend to other fields as well.
- Note the author or title of the problem, and the text immediately surrounding the mis-alignments.
- Re-open the Excel metadata file and find the problems you noted. Delete and retype the characters immediately surround the erroneous tab, eliminated any problem characters such as smart quotes or colons.
- Return to step 2 in the "Loading" procedure.
- If the error occurs again, redo these steps until all of the problems preventing the file from loading have been found and fixed.
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