CTRL+C & CTRL+V copy single but pasting tab delimited spaced

This is the strangest thing. I am coping the value of one cell with CTRL+C. Say L1 and the value of L1 is

='[blahblah.xls]HL-.TSTT.-Location'!A8

Then I click E1 and I want it to paste there but when I click CTRL+V it paste the data into Cell E1, F1, and G1 but its not duplicated its spaced out like its been tab delimited. Any idea how I did this and how to change it back so that I can copy one cell and paste into only one cell. haha