Decoding with Excel

I took the easy way out...save all the text in a Word or other editor in Text-only .txt format, then open that document in Excel. When it asks about importing the text document, say you want it fixed-width and click next, then on the next screen click the top of every column to set the cell size one character wide. Click all 50-something columns and then click Finish, and viola!

I hope you are coming on Sunday Kim, I am definately not into this decoding thing and am doing the basic coattail thing here, I hope that I have helped enough people on other things to rate that, lol, so I will ask for word clues to get me there, dont want the answer, just the road map. Micci

I'll be there Sunday! And you know I can give an obscure hint quicker than I could ever give a direct answer to anything. :)

It occurred to me that decoding this vertical code thing would be a cinch if all of the letters were the same width. We could then use Shilfiell's idea of using a postcard to cross out columns ala last Saturday's crossword puzzle's diagonal clue. I thought there was a block-type font that had this feature, but I couldn't find it.

There's gotta be some fast way to decode it. The Watchmaker's post came out at, what, 9 p.m. and some people had the achievement by 7 or 8 a.m. the next morning when I logged in.

No, Shilfiell has the fastest method to geting to the point of being able to read this. I had it solved before I went to bed that night.

Conditional formating in Excel can also be useful for spotting letter patterns

Kim,

Thanks for the nice, clear direction on how to import the document into excel. I made my way through it and got the achievement!!

Thanks again.