How do i save as a textfile in a macro?

[Alex_DK]

Hi
I have problems saving my text file in the right format?
I am working on a macro that opens a text file, changes a value to a value
found in another workbook, and saving the changed textfile with a new name.
The lines in the text files contains both text and numbers, and are seperated
by commas. The text file is opened with no delimiters and some of the lines
are changed.

The changing and renaming part works fine, but excel adds a " at each end of
every line in the new text file when the macro saves the file. This doesn't
happen when I save the file manually... Does anyone know how to avoid getting
the " when the macro saves the file?

Greetings
Alex

 

[Ed]

What process are you using to open, write to, and save your text file? I
think I was using FreeFile and Write and it threw in quotes all over the
place. That's just the way that works. If that's what you're doing, check
out Write # in the VBA Help.

Ed

 

[Serge]

Alex,

If you have found the solution, could yu tell me how you automatically save
your excel file as a textfile in a macro ?

Thanks in advance
Serge

 

[Dave Peterson]

You could write your own macro.

Here are three sites that you could steal some code from:

Earl Kiosterud's Text Write program:
www.smokeylake.com/excel
(or directly: http://www.smokeylake.com/excel/text_write_program.htm)

Chip Pearson's:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/imptext.htm

J.E. McGimpsey's:
http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/textfiles.html

If you're new to macros, you may want to read David McRitchie's intro at:
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/getstarted.htm