IMPORT LARGE TEXT FILE INTO MULTIPLE WORKSHEETS

[dgr]

Dear All,
I trust that this message finds you all in good health & wealth. I need your help on this matter:-

I have a large tab delimited text file with more than 75,000 records. I'd like to import it into multiple worksheets with each sheet containing not more than 30,000 records. I will manually create additional worksheets before starting the import job so you don't have to worry about that.

Excel's Import Wizard says it can be done but there does not seem to be a proper way to do it.

I'm looking for a VB macro to do this.

Thank you for your guidance.

ROBERT RAM

 

[KenCriss]

You will first have to split the text file into 2 pieces, neither of which can be more than 65536 lines.

 

[Tazguy37]

Or use Access until the next version of Excel. (LOTS of rows!) Or, skip a column after the last column in your data, and continue with Row 1. (Edit: Skip a column, not split the text file.)

 

[dgr]

Thank you for your replies Ken & Taz.

I do not want to use Access or split the text file which is why I posted my question here.

Warm Regards.

ROBERT RAM

 

[dk]

Hi,

Try this:

http://www.danielklann.com/excel/importing_large_text_files_into.htm

HTH
Dan

 

[dgr]

Thanks a lot DK. I've tried that. It gave an error message half way thorugh & stopped working. I got the following code from another website which is working fine :-

Sub LargeFileImport()

'Dimension Variables
Dim ResultStr As String
Dim FileName As String
Dim FileNum As Integer
Dim Counter As Double
'Ask User for File's Name
FileName = InputBox("Please enter the Text File's name, e.g. test.txt")
'Check for no entry
If FileName = "" Then End
'Get Next Available File Handle Number
FileNum = FreeFile()
'Open Text File For Input
Open FileName For Input As #FileNum
'Turn Screen Updating Off
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
'Create A New WorkBook With One Worksheet In It
Workbooks.Add template:=xlWorksheet
'Set The Counter to 1
Counter = 1
'Loop Until the End Of File Is Reached
Do While Seek(FileNum) <= LOF(FileNum)
'Display Importing Row Number On Status Bar
Application.StatusBar = "Importing Row " & _
Counter & " of text file " & FileName
'Store One Line Of Text From File To Variable
Line Input #FileNum, ResultStr
'Store Variable Data Into Active Cell
If Left(ResultStr, 1) = "=" Then
ActiveCell.Value = "'" & ResultStr
Else
ActiveCell.Value = ResultStr
End If

'For Excel versions before Excel 97, change 65536 to 16384
If ActiveCell.Row = 65536 Then
'If On The Last Row Then Add A New Sheet
ActiveWorkbook.Sheets.Add
Else
'If Not The Last Row Then Go One Cell Down
ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Select
End If
'Increment the Counter By 1
Counter = Counter + 1
'Start Again At Top Of 'Do While' Statement
Loop
'Close The Open Text File
Close
'Remove Message From Status Bar
Application.StatusBar = False

End Sub

I appreciate your initiative & help on this matter. Thank you once again.

Warm Regards
ROBERT RAM

 

[dk]

Hi,

Am I correct in saying that you're using Excel 97? I should have mentioned that the code I referred to will only work on Excel 2000 or above.

Regards
Daniel

 

[dgr]

No, I'm using excel xp. However, for some strange reason, the code on danielklann's website did not work. It kept giving me error messages.

I appreciate your good intentions. It's not your fault.

Warm Regards

ROBERT RAM