Hi all, I'm trying to export from excel to .txt.
I have a row of column headers in excel but they're not exporting to the .txt option. (which was the original plan, but now needs to be reversed!)
Here is my code so far. It does everything I need but include the row of column headers, such as Name, Address, Age, etc. (and they don't being with 'GEN')
Any ideas what I need to do to include the original column headers?
Many thanks
I have a row of column headers in excel but they're not exporting to the .txt option. (which was the original plan, but now needs to be reversed!)
Here is my code so far. It does everything I need but include the row of column headers, such as Name, Address, Age, etc. (and they don't being with 'GEN')
Code:
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' ExportToTextFile
' This exports a sheet or range to a text file, using a
' user-defined separator character.
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Public Sub ExportToTextFile(FName As String, _
Sep As String, SelectionOnly As Boolean, _
AppendData As Boolean)
Dim WholeLine As String
Dim FNum As Integer
Dim RowNdx As Long
Dim ColNdx As Integer
Dim StartRow As Long
Dim EndRow As Long
Dim StartCol As Integer
Dim EndCol As Integer
Dim CellValue As String
Sheets("Export").Visible = True
Sheets("Export").Select
Dim Firstrow As Long
Dim Lastrow As Long
Dim Lrow As Long
Dim CalcMode As Long
Dim ViewMode As Long
With Application
CalcMode = .Calculation
.Calculation = xlCalculationManual
.ScreenUpdating = False
End With
'We use the ActiveSheet but you can replace this with
'Sheets("MySheet")if you want
With ActiveSheet
We select the sheet so we can change the window view
.Select
.If you are in Page Break Preview Or Page Layout view go
'back to normal view, we do this for speed
ViewMode = ActiveWindow.View
ActiveWindow.View = xlNormalView
'Turn off Page Breaks, we do this for speed
.DisplayPageBreaks = False
'Set the first and last row to loop through
Firstrow = .UsedRange.Cells(1).Row
Lastrow = .UsedRange.Rows(.UsedRange.Rows.Count).Row
'We loop from Lastrow to Firstrow (bottom to top)
For Lrow = Lastrow To Firstrow Step -1
'We check the values in the A column in this example
With .Cells(Lrow, "A")
If Not IsError(.Value) Then
If .Value <> "GEN" Then .EntireRow.Delete
'This will delete each row with the Value "ron"
'in Column A, case sensitive.
End If
End With
ext Lrow
End With
ActiveWindow.View = ViewMode
With Application
.ScreenUpdating = True
.Calculation = CalcMode
End With
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
On Error GoTo EndMacro:
FNum = FreeFile
If SelectionOnly = True Then
With Selection
StartRow = .Cells(1).Row
StartCol = .Cells(1).Column
EndRow = .Cells(.Cells.Count).Row
EndCol = .Cells(.Cells.Count).Column
End With
Else
With ActiveSheet.UsedRange
StartRow = .Cells(1).Row
StartCol = .Cells(1).Column
EndRow = .Cells(.Cells.Count).Row
EndCol = .Cells(.Cells.Count).Column
End With
End If
If AppendData = True Then
Open FName For Append Access Write As #FNum
Else
Open FName For Output Access Write As #FNum
End If
For RowNdx = StartRow To EndRow
WholeLine = ""
For ColNdx = StartCol To EndCol
If Cells(RowNdx, ColNdx).Value = "" Then
CellValue = ""
Else
CellValue = Cells(RowNdx, ColNdx).Value
End If
WholeLine = WholeLine & CellValue & Sep
Next ColNdx
WholeLine = Left(WholeLine, Len(WholeLine) - Len(Sep))
Print #FNum, WholeLine
Next RowNdx
EndMacro:
On Error GoTo 0
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
Close #FNum
End Sub
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' END ExportTextFile
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' DoTheExport
' This prompts the user for the FileName and the separtor
' character and then calls the ExportToTextFile procedure.
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Sub DoTheExport()
Dim FileName As Variant
Dim Sep As String
FileName = Application.GetSaveAsFilename(InitialFileName:=vbNullString, FileFilter:="Text Files (*.txt),*.txt")
If FileName = False Then
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' user cancelled, get out
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Exit Sub
End If
Sep = "|"
Debug.Print "FileName: " & FileName, "Separator: " & Sep
ExportToTextFile FName:=CStr(FileName), Sep:=CStr(Sep), _
SelectionOnly:=False, AppendData:=True
Sheets("Export").Select
Range(Selection, Selection.End(xlToRight)).Select
Selection.AutoFill Destination:=Range("A1:M500")
Range("A1:M500").Select
Range("A1").Select
ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets.Visible = False
End SubAny ideas what I need to do to include the original column headers?
Many thanks
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