Exporting Text File From Excel

[guybrown]

Hi all!

I am looking to export a range of data as a notepad file with extn .scr (for AutoCAD).

<TABLE style="WIDTH: 237pt; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=316 border=0><COLGROUP><COL style="WIDTH: 28pt; mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 1353" width=37><COL style="WIDTH: 209pt; mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 10203" width=279><TBODY><TR style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; WIDTH: 28pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; HEIGHT: 12.75pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" width=37 height=17>C2</TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; WIDTH: 209pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" width=279>-mtext 123456123467 123456123467 Test</TD></TR><TR style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; HEIGHT: 12.75pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" height=17>C3</TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent"></TD></TR><TR style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; HEIGHT: 12.75pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" height=17>C4</TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">-mtext 123456123468 123456123468 Test</TD></TR><TR style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; HEIGHT: 12.75pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" height=17>C5</TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent"></TD></TR><TR style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; HEIGHT: 12.75pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" height=17>C6</TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">-mtext 123456123469 123456123469 Test</TD></TR><TR style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; HEIGHT: 12.75pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" height=17>C7</TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent"></TD></TR><TR style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; HEIGHT: 12.75pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" height=17>C8</TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">-mtext 123456123470 123456123470 Test</TD></TR><TR style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt" height=17><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; HEIGHT: 12.75pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" height=17>C9</TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">(blank but carriage return reqd in exported file)</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

I am trying to play with this... any ideas?



Dim MyStr As String, PageName As String, FirstRow As Integer, LastRow As Integer, MyRow As Integer
PageName = "C:\TextFileFW" & Format(Time, "HHMM") & ".scr" ' location and name of saved file
FirstRow = Range("C2").Value ' the range of the table to be exported
LastRow = FirstRow + Range("C3").Value - 1
Open PageName For Output As #1
For MyRow = FirstRow To LastRow ' loop through each row of the table
MyStr = ""
MyStr = Cells(MyRow, 1).Value & String(15 - Len(Cells(MyRow, 1).Value), " ")
MyStr = MyStr & String(7 - Len(Cells(MyRow, 2).Value), " ") & Cells(MyRow, 2).Value
MyStr = MyStr & " " & Cells(MyRow, 3).Value & String(20 - Len(Cells(MyRow, 3).Value), " ")
MyStr = MyStr & Cells(MyRow, 4).Value & String(15 - Len(Cells(MyRow, 4).Value), " ")
MyStr = MyStr & Cells(MyRow, 5).Value & String(13 - Len(Cells(MyRow, 5).Value), " ")
MyStr = MyStr & Cells(MyRow, 6).Value & String(25 - Len(Cells(MyRow, 6).Value), " ")
MyStr = MyStr & Format(Cells(MyRow, 7).Value, "0000000.00")
Print #1, MyStr
Next
Close #1
Sheets("DATA").Range("G2").ClearContents ' note that this row expects the worksheet to be named DATA
Sheets("DATA").Hyperlinks.Add Range("G2"), PageName

 

[guybrown]

Hi all!

Forget the above macro - too complicated...

The macro below creates a text file with the following:
1
[space][space]
2
[space][space]
3
[returned carriage, no space]


Does anyone know how I can replace the 2 spaces on each line with just a carriage return so it'll look like this:
1
[returned carriage, no space]
2
[returned carriage, no space]
3
[returned carriage, no space]



Sub test()
Const DELIMITER As String = " " 'or "|", vbTab, etc.
Dim myRecord As Range
Dim myField As Range
Dim nFileNum As Long
Dim sOut As String

nFileNum = FreeFile
Open "Text_to_XY.scr" For Output As #nFileNum
For Each myRecord In Range("C2:C" & _
Range("C" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row)
With myRecord
For Each myField In Range(.Cells(1), _
Cells(.Row, Columns.Count).End(xlToLeft))
sOut = sOut & DELIMITER & myField.Text
Next myField
Print #nFileNum, Mid(sOut, 2)
sOut = Empty
End With
Next myRecord
Close #nFileNum
End Sub