Hi
I often produce csv files that exceed the 65000 row limit in Excel.
Can someone point me to a solution that will either split the files in
65000 lime bites or is there a macro to import into Excell by filling limit
of cols and then move across and down the next vacant rows and so on.
A shell script would be fine too.
thanks, Ven

' ================================================== =========
' Importing a large file into Excel. File MAY have more than 65,000 records
' and will automatically start a new sheet.


Sub LargeFileImport()
'Bernie Deitrick's code for opening very large text files in Excel
'Dimension Variables
Dim ResultStr As String
Dim FileName As String
Dim FileNum As Integer
Dim Counter As Double
'Ask User for File's Name
FileName = Application.GetOpenFilename
'Check for no entry
If FileName = "" Then End
'Get Next Available File Handle Number
FileNum = FreeFile()
'Open Text File For Input
Open FileName For Input As #FileNum
'Turn Screen Updating Off
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
'Create A New WorkBook With One Worksheet In It
Workbooks.Add Template:=xlWorksheet
'Set The Counter to 1
Counter = 1
'Loop Until the End Of File Is Reached
Do While Seek(FileNum) <= LOF(FileNum)
'Display Importing Row Number On Status Bar
Application.StatusBar = "Importing Row " & Counter & " of text file " _
& FileName
'Store One Line Of Text From File To Variable
Line Input #FileNum, ResultStr
'Store Variable Data Into Active Cell
If Left(ResultStr, 1) = "=" Then
ActiveCell.Value = "'" & ResultStr
Else
ActiveCell.Value = ResultStr
End If
If ActiveCell.Row = 65536 Then
'If On The Last Row Then Add A New Sheet
ActiveWorkbook.Sheets.Add
Else
'If Not The Last Row Then Go One Cell Down
ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Select
End If
'Increment the Counter By 1
Counter = Counter + 1
'Start Again At Top Of 'Do While' Statement
Loop
'Close The Open Text File
Close
'Remove Message From Status Bar
Application.StatusBar = False
End Sub

' ================================================== =========


--
Kind regards,

Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel

"Ven" wrote in message .. .
| Hi
| I often produce csv files that exceed the 65000 row limit in Excel.
| Can someone point me to a solution that will either split the files in
| 65000 lime bites or is there a macro to import into Excell by filling limit
| of cols and then move across and down the next vacant rows and so on.
| A shell script would be fine too.
| thanks, Ven

er.. must be a newby FAQ?
thanks, Ven

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:29:05 +0200, Niek Otten wrote:

' ================================================== =========
' Importing a large file into Excel. File MAY have more than 65,000 records
' and will automatically start a new sheet.


Sub LargeFileImport()
'Bernie Deitrick's code for opening very large text files in Excel
'Dimension Variables
Dim ResultStr As String
Dim FileName As String
Dim FileNum As Integer
Dim Counter As Double
'Ask User for File's Name
FileName = Application.GetOpenFilename
'Check for no entry
If FileName = "" Then End
'Get Next Available File Handle Number
FileNum = FreeFile()
'Open Text File For Input
Open FileName For Input As #FileNum
'Turn Screen Updating Off
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
'Create A New WorkBook With One Worksheet In It
Workbooks.Add Template:=xlWorksheet
'Set The Counter to 1
Counter = 1
'Loop Until the End Of File Is Reached
Do While Seek(FileNum) <= LOF(FileNum)
'Display Importing Row Number On Status Bar
Application.StatusBar = "Importing Row " & Counter & " of text file " _
& FileName
'Store One Line Of Text From File To Variable
Line Input #FileNum, ResultStr
'Store Variable Data Into Active Cell
If Left(ResultStr, 1) = "=" Then
ActiveCell.Value = "'" & ResultStr
Else
ActiveCell.Value = ResultStr
End If
If ActiveCell.Row = 65536 Then
'If On The Last Row Then Add A New Sheet
ActiveWorkbook.Sheets.Add
Else
'If Not The Last Row Then Go One Cell Down
ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Select
End If
'Increment the Counter By 1
Counter = Counter + 1
'Start Again At Top Of 'Do While' Statement
Loop
'Close The Open Text File
Close
'Remove Message From Status Bar
Application.StatusBar = False
End Sub

' ================================================== =========


--
Kind regards,

Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel

FYI: Excel 2007 (I heard) exceeds the 65536 rows quite a bit!!

"Ven" wrote:

Hi
I often produce csv files that exceed the 65000 row limit in Excel.
Can someone point me to a solution that will either split the files in
65000 lime bites or is there a macro to import into Excell by filling limit
of cols and then move across and down the next vacant rows and so on.
A shell script would be fine too.
thanks, Ven

Yes, it has 1 million rows, give or take a couple thousand.

Dave
--
Brevity is the soul of wit.


"Jim May" wrote:

FYI: Excel 2007 (I heard) exceeds the 65536 rows quite a bit!!

"Ven" wrote:

Hi
I often produce csv files that exceed the 65000 row limit in Excel.
Can someone point me to a solution that will either split the files in
65000 lime bites or is there a macro to import into Excell by filling limit
of cols and then move across and down the next vacant rows and so on.
A shell script would be fine too.
thanks, Ven