Convert text files to excel files - excel

Question

I developed a macro using VBA in excel to split large text files in to smaller ones, but I need those splited files to be splited in to excel type files instead of text files, currently they are being converted back to text files can anyone help on what can I do so those files are directly converted to excel instead of text ?
Appreciate it, Neyrivan Silva.

Answer 1

I'm not sure what your end game is, but this should help you get started.
Private Declare Function SetCurrentDirectoryA Lib _
"kernel32" (ByVal lpPathName As String) As Long
Public Function ChDirNet(szPath As String) As Boolean
'based on Rob Bovey's code
Dim lReturn As Long
lReturn = SetCurrentDirectoryA(szPath)
ChDirNet = CBool(lReturn <> 0)
End Function
Sub Get_TXT_Files()
'For Excel 2000 and higher
Dim Fnum As Long
Dim mysheet As Worksheet
Dim basebook As Workbook
Dim TxtFileNames As Variant
Dim QTable As QueryTable
Dim SaveDriveDir As String
Dim ExistFolder As Boolean
'Save the current dir
SaveDriveDir = CurDir
'You can change the start folder if you want for
'GetOpenFilename,you can use a network or local folder.
'For example ChDirNet("C:\Users\Ron\test")
'It now use Excel's Default File Path
ExistFolder = ChDirNet("C:\your_path_here\")
If ExistFolder = False Then
MsgBox "Error changing folder"
Exit Sub
End If
TxtFileNames = Application.GetOpenFilename _
(filefilter:="TXT Files (*.txt), *.txt", MultiSelect:=True)
If IsArray(TxtFileNames) Then
On Error GoTo CleanUp
With Application
.ScreenUpdating = False
.EnableEvents = False
End With
'Add workbook with one sheet
Set basebook = Workbooks.Add(xlWBATWorksheet)
'Loop through the array with txt files
For Fnum = LBound(TxtFileNames) To UBound(TxtFileNames)
'Add a new worksheet for the name of the txt file
Set mysheet = Worksheets.Add(After:=basebook. _
Sheets(basebook.Sheets.Count))
On Error Resume Next
mysheet.Name = Right(TxtFileNames(Fnum), Len(TxtFileNames(Fnum)) - _
InStrRev(TxtFileNames(Fnum), "\", , 1))
On Error GoTo 0
With ActiveSheet.QueryTables.Add(Connection:= _
"TEXT;" & TxtFileNames(Fnum), Destination:=Range("A1"))
.TextFilePlatform = xlWindows
.TextFileStartRow = 1
'This example use xlDelimited
'See a example for xlFixedWidth below the macro
.TextFileParseType = xlDelimited
'Set your Delimiter to true
.TextFileTabDelimiter = True
.TextFileSemicolonDelimiter = False
.TextFileCommaDelimiter = False
.TextFileSpaceDelimiter = False
'Set the format for each column if you want (Default = General)
'For example Array(1, 9, 1) to skip the second column
.TextFileColumnDataTypes = Array(1, 9, 1)
'xlGeneralFormat General 1
'xlTextFormat Text 2
'xlMDYFormat Month-Day-Year 3
'xlDMYFormat Day-Month-Year 4
'xlYMDFormat Year-Month-Day 5
'xlMYDFormat Month-Year-Day 6
'xlDYMFormat Day-Year-Month 7
'xlYDMFormat Year-Day-Month 8
'xlSkipColumn Skip 9
' Get the data from the txt file
.Refresh BackgroundQuery:=False
End With
ActiveSheet.QueryTables(1).Delete
Next Fnum
'Delete the first sheet of basebook
On Error Resume Next
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
basebook.Worksheets(1).Delete
Application.DisplayAlerts = True
On Error GoTo 0
CleanUp:
ChDirNet SaveDriveDir
With Application
.ScreenUpdating = True
.EnableEvents = True
End With
End If
End Sub