Hi Tom,

Thanx for the post. Very nice explanation.

Regards,
Hari
India

"Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message
...
Text qualifier is used to delimit/mark text strings if they include a
delimiter character.

for a CSV file as an example

123,the house,345,big dog

would be broken into 4 columns, but assume we have

123,My house, is big, 345, big dog

this would be broken into 5 columns, but 'My House, is big' is intended to
be a single field value. To indicate this we use the TextQualifier
Character

123,"My house, is big",345, big dog

now all is well.

--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Hari" wrote in message
...
Hi Tom,

On further probing...

In the help, TextQualifier:=xlDoubleQuote, texqualifier is described as
"specifies the text qualifier". What does qualifier mean. Going through
the
3 optionals in help I set TextQualifier:=xlTextQualifierNone (I have a
morbid fear that some data would be missed out otherwise.)
What would be the difference in the result if I use
TextQualifier:=xlTextQualifierNone rather than
TextQualifier:=xlDoubleQuote.

I have used text to columns feature a lot in Excel (non
programmatically)
and till now I have been BLIND to this option. I used to do text to
columns
a lot and was always concerned only with the Delimiter option and never
bothered to understand what textqualifier means. Please enlighten me.
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Thanks a lot,
Hari
India

"Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message
...
Most of this is explained in the help file in great detail. I would
start
there and then ask for explanation.

Most of this reflects the choices you made when you went throught the
text
import wizard. For instance, at the start of the wizard is the Choice
start
at line and a textbox. You entered 1 and it is recorded as

Startrow:=1

From you description, that is what you want.

For the remainder, begin in Help. But as an example, for me, help
only
shows the values 1, 2, or 3 for Origin.

? xlMSDOS
3
? xlWindows
2
? xlMacintosh
1


You may have more because you don't have an English version of Excel
(assumed).

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"Hari" wrote in message
...
Hi,

Im trying to programmatically open a textpad kind of file (and then
save
it
as excel file) and I recorded a macro for the same. The relevant
line
is
....

Workbooks.OpenText Filename:= _
"C:\Documents and Settings\abc\Desktop\dev11022.xls",
Origin:=437,
StartRow _
:=1, DataType:=xlDelimited, TextQualifier:=xlDoubleQuote, _
ConsecutiveDelimiter:=False, Tab:=False, Semicolon:=False,
Comma:=False _
, Space:=False, Other:=False, FieldInfo:=Array(1, 1), _
TrailingMinusNumbers:=True

I wanted to understand
a) What "Origin" means
b) Is Startrow the row from which textpad will be read?
c) I want to export whole of the textpad in to excel without any
exclusions
in such a way that each row in the texpad occupies a single cell in
Excel.
In view of that would it be more safer if I remove the specification
of
TextQualifier:=xlDoubleQuote. If yes, what value should I put
following
the
equal to sign in the text qualifier statement.
d) What does FieldInfo:=Array(1, 1). Based on my requirement
mentioned
in
point c) does the specification in Fieldinfo pose a danger for all
my
data
not getting transferred.
e) What does TrailingMinusNumbers:=True mean. Again does the
trailing
minus
number specification affect the amount and the way that gets stored
in
each
cell of the excel.


Thanks a lot,
Hari
India