You can't automate WordPad or NotePad, unless you use the dreaded SendKeys
method. It would be much easier to use VB's own file input/output functions
to write the text file. Something along the lines of

Sub WriteToTextFile()
Dim FName As Variant
Dim FNum As Integer
Dim R As Range

FName = Application.GetSaveAsFilename(filefilter:="Text Files
(*.txt),*.txt")
If FName = False Then
' user cancelled
Exit Sub
End If

FNum = FreeFile()
Open FName For Output Access Write As #FNum
For Each R In Range("A1:A10")
Print #FNum, R.Text
Next R
Close #FNum
End Sub

See also www.cpearson.com/Excel/ImpText.aspx


--
Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel, 10 Years
Pearson Software Consulting
www.cpearson.com
(email on the web site)





"DaveM" wrote in message
...
I have a fairly simple macro that copies data from a few sheets and
consolidates it (via paste) into one sheet. I know what to copy this
consoldiates data in this sheet (say A1:G65) and I want to copy it and
paste
it into a wordpad document file (NewData.txt) and save the txt file once
it
is pasted so i can then do some different work with the txt file.

How do i call these tasks from within an excel macro?

thx
davem