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Default Writing records to CSV file

Not knowing anything about your workbook or the current code you're
using, can you use the Workbook.SaveAs method and specify "xlCSV" as
the FileFormat parameter?

--JP

On Sep 21, 2:06*pm, Ken Warthen
wrote:
I have an Excel 2003 workbook in which users select a number of products,
enter pricing, margins, etc. *When the user is finished I need to create a
csv file with every permutations of their selections and entries. *I
originally was writing the records to a worksheet and then when finished I
would export the worksheet to a CSV file. *My code worked fine until it was
discovered that frequently the number of records could run into the hundreds
of thousands, exceeding Excel 2003's 65k limit.

I need to rewrite my code to write records directly to an external CSV file.
*If anyone has any experience in this area that they could share, I would be
very appreciative.

Ken