Hi, now working to export 12 character but still not padding out in text form
e.g adding spaces to text below 12 cgaracters to form column like text in
text file

Many thanks for you help


"Joel" wrote:

I added one line of code
Sub WriteFixed()

Const MyPath = "C:\temp\"
Const WriteFileName = "text.txt"

Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2, ForAppending = 3

Const TristateUseDefault = -2, TristateTrue = -1, TristateFalse = 0

Set fswrite = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

'open files
WritePathName = MyPath + WriteFileName
fswrite.CreateTextFile WritePathName
Set fwrite = fswrite.GetFile(WritePathName)
Set tswrite = fwrite.OpenAsTextStream(ForWriting, TristateUseDefault)

LastRow = Cells(Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Row

For RowCount = 1 To LastRow
LastCol = Cells(RowCount, Columns.Count).End(xlToLeft).Column
OutPutLine = ""
For Colcount = 1 To LastCol
Data = Cells(RowCount, Colcount).Text
If Len(Data) < 12 Then
Data = Data & WorksheetFunction.Rept(" ", 12 - Len(Data))
else
Data = left(Data,12)
End If
OutPutLine = OutPutLine & Data
Next Colcount
tswrite.writeline OutPutLine
Next RowCount

tswrite.Close

End Sub

"santaviga" wrote:

Just noticed also that in the text file it is exporting all text and not the
first 12 characters of each cell. Any ideas???

Regards

"santaviga" wrote:

Hi to all.

I need some help with exporting excel data to text file, I have data in
cells throughout the worksheet, what I need is a macro to export the data in
all cells to a text file on the desktop, but these need to be a maximum of 12
characters and if not 12 character it needs to be padded out to 12 characters
so that when it exports to a text file the data is displayed as if in colums
and not all over the place.

Also I need to know how it exports e.g every time I save the file will it
export to a text file on desktop?

I am currenty doing this a long way by formulas but I think would be better
if it was done by a macro.

I thankyou in advance

Any help would be much appreciated I am new to macros

Regards