Sorry, was off yesterday.

I don't follow what you're doing exactly. It sounds as if you're only using
Excel as a intermediate step to go from a text file to an array. And then
doing "calculations" via VB instead of calcing in the sheet. No wonder it's
slow<g.

Certainly you can do from the text file directly to an array, bypassing the
load into Excel step entirely. There are file i/o commands for this in VBA
(Open, Read, Write, etc.)

And then there's Exel 2007 which accommodates over a million rows....

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Jim
"MikeZz" wrote in message
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Thanks for the reply Jim.
It takes a long time to run the file and I would have to run it 4 or 5
times
to get what I want (going from maybe 5 minutes to 25 minutes of my time).

In addition, it would be a lot of extra programing and debugging just to
get
the multiple files into a single array. I know it sounds like an easy
task
but the entire code is probably over 6000 lines long and since I didn't
develope it with this in mind, I have no idea how easy it would be.

I could spend hours just trying to figure out why something doesn't come
out
right so I'm hesitant to start down that path if I can just get a
converter
to make it into a text file and then read it into the array.

Make sense?

"Jim Rech" wrote:

Have you considered a low tech solution like splitting the file up into
shorter files?

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Jim
"MikeZz" wrote in message
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| Hi,
| I get an excel file that may have more than the 65k line max in
Excel03.
| I was wondering if there was a utility or plugin that would allow me to
| bring it into an array through vba so I can do all the calculations
because
| the finished file would fall within the limit.
|
| I'm also open to a 3rd party file converter but I need to have it
convert
to
| Tab Deliminated Text because the data itself has commas and other
special
| characters in them.
|
| Thanks for any help!
|
| MikeZz