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Programming Excel with VBA and .NET
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Programming Excel with VBA and .NET

by Jeff Webb, Steve Saunders
April 2006
Beginner
1114 pages
98h 16m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

workbooks.OpenText(Filename, [Origin], [StartRow], [DataType], [TextQualifier], [ConsecutiveDelimiter], [Tab], [Semicolon], [Comma], [Space], [Other], [OtherChar], [FieldInfo], [TextVisualLayout], [DecimalSeparator], [ThousandsSeparator], [TrailingMinusNumbers], [Local])

Synopsis

Opens a text file and interprets it as a workbook. How OpenText interprets the text file is determined by the method’s many arguments.

Argument

Settings

Filename

The text file to open.

Origin

The platform to create the text file; can be one of the following xlPlatform settings: xlWindows, xlMSDOS, xlMacintosh. The default is the current platform.

StartRow

The row within the file at which to start parsing. Default is 1 for the first row.

DataType

Determines how the columns are delimited; can be one of the following xlTextParsingType settings: xlDelimited or xlFixedWidth. If omitted, Excel tries to determine the correct setting.

TextQualifier

Determines how text values are identified; can be one of the following xlTextQualifier settings: xlTextQualifierDoubleQuote (default), xlTextQualifierNone, xlTextQualifierSingleQuote.

ConsecutiveDelimiter

True parses consecutive delimiters as indicating a single column; False parses consecutive delimiters as multiple, empty columns. Default is False.

Tab

True parses the tab character as the column delimiter; False does not.

Semicolon

True parses the semicolon as the column delimiter; False does not.

Comma

True parses the comma ...

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