Automator-How to batch import txt files into excel

Hi
I have been using Automator to import hundreds of text files into one excel workbook using the "Import Text files to Excel Workbook" action. Automator works great for all files that are tab delimited. However I have another set of data that are output with a varying amount of spaces between each column. I cannot change the way they are output. Automator gives me the option of choosing "space" as a delimiter, but it wont give me the option to "Treat consecutive delimiters as one" that Import within excel does. I also tried to record my actions within excel many times but it didn't work even with just one file. So what I need is a way to get these text files into one excel workbook as separate worksheets with the data separated correctly into columns.
Any help would be great!

I'm confused by the "I cannot change the way they are output" line: What's stopping you from reimporting them into excel and resaving them as tab delimited? Converting from fixed-format to tab-delimited is always a bit of a pain (it involves chunking each line to the correct sized bits and then stripping whitespace from the end - doable in applescript and shell scripting, but a headache to get right); no sense remaking the wheel if you can get Excel to do it for you.

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