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I am new to this group, so have some patience with my stupidity regarding
Excel. I have read much about converting Excel files to other formats, but
can't seem to find the answer I'm looking for. ? - How (or is it possible)
to save an Excel data file as an ASCII text file without any delimiters at
all. I.E. I want my Excel data file to be represented as a pure text file
with rows to be continuous/contiguous data fields and the row ending with a
carriage return/line feed.

Thank you for your time and help,
Scott Sewell
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
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Scott:

You can create your own via VBA similar to this:

http://www.dicks-blog.com/archives/2...-your-own-csv/

This shows how to create a CSV, but you can change the code to create
whatever field, delimeters you want.

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I am new to this group, so have some patience with my stupidity
regarding Excel. I have read much about converting Excel files to
other formats, but can't seem to find the answer I'm looking for. ?
- How (or is it possible) to save an Excel data file as an ASCII text
file without any delimiters at all. I.E. I want my Excel data file
to be represented as a pure text file with rows to be
continuous/contiguous data fields and the row ending with a carriage
return/line feed.

Thank you for your time and help,
Scott Sewell
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board



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Thank you Dick. I'll look into this. I suspected that I would have to do
some creative coding, other than a "point and click" choice within Excel. I
appreciate your time in helping me out. Have a Happy New Year.

Scott

"Dick Kusleika" wrote:

Scott:

You can create your own via VBA similar to this:

http://www.dicks-blog.com/archives/2...-your-own-csv/

This shows how to create a CSV, but you can change the code to create
whatever field, delimeters you want.

--
Dick Kusleika
Excel MVP
Daily Dose of Excel
www.dicks-blog.com

Sewellst wrote:
I am new to this group, so have some patience with my stupidity
regarding Excel. I have read much about converting Excel files to
other formats, but can't seem to find the answer I'm looking for. ?
- How (or is it possible) to save an Excel data file as an ASCII text
file without any delimiters at all. I.E. I want my Excel data file
to be represented as a pure text file with rows to be
continuous/contiguous data fields and the row ending with a carriage
return/line feed.

Thank you for your time and help,
Scott Sewell
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board




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Scott

I assumed you wanted a VBA solution because you posted in .programming.
(You said you were new, I just didn't listen).

But my answers the same because I don't think you can do what you want
through the user interface. Let me know if you have trouble modifying the
code to suit your needs.

--
Dick Kusleika
Excel MVP
Daily Dose of Excel
www.dicks-blog.com

Sewellst wrote:
Thank you Dick. I'll look into this. I suspected that I would have
to do some creative coding, other than a "point and click" choice
within Excel. I appreciate your time in helping me out. Have a
Happy New Year.

Scott

"Dick Kusleika" wrote:

Scott:

You can create your own via VBA similar to this:

http://www.dicks-blog.com/archives/2...-your-own-csv/

This shows how to create a CSV, but you can change the code to create
whatever field, delimeters you want.

--
Dick Kusleika
Excel MVP
Daily Dose of Excel
www.dicks-blog.com

Sewellst wrote:
I am new to this group, so have some patience with my stupidity
regarding Excel. I have read much about converting Excel files to
other formats, but can't seem to find the answer I'm looking for. ?
- How (or is it possible) to save an Excel data file as an ASCII
text file without any delimiters at all. I.E. I want my Excel data
file to be represented as a pure text file with rows to be
continuous/contiguous data fields and the row ending with a carriage
return/line feed.

Thank you for your time and help,
Scott Sewell
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board



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Morning Dick,

Sorry I did not get back to you after you responded here. I left the
building!

Anyhow, I will work with your code today and give it a test run. I believe
it will suffice for what I intended. Again, thanks for helping me out. I
was looking for a quick fix, and you gave me just that.

'Preciate the help,
Scott

"Dick Kusleika" wrote:

Scott

I assumed you wanted a VBA solution because you posted in .programming.
(You said you were new, I just didn't listen).

But my answers the same because I don't think you can do what you want
through the user interface. Let me know if you have trouble modifying the
code to suit your needs.

--
Dick Kusleika
Excel MVP
Daily Dose of Excel
www.dicks-blog.com

Sewellst wrote:
Thank you Dick. I'll look into this. I suspected that I would have
to do some creative coding, other than a "point and click" choice
within Excel. I appreciate your time in helping me out. Have a
Happy New Year.

Scott

"Dick Kusleika" wrote:

Scott:

You can create your own via VBA similar to this:

http://www.dicks-blog.com/archives/2...-your-own-csv/

This shows how to create a CSV, but you can change the code to create
whatever field, delimeters you want.

--
Dick Kusleika
Excel MVP
Daily Dose of Excel
www.dicks-blog.com

Sewellst wrote:
I am new to this group, so have some patience with my stupidity
regarding Excel. I have read much about converting Excel files to
other formats, but can't seem to find the answer I'm looking for. ?
- How (or is it possible) to save an Excel data file as an ASCII
text file without any delimiters at all. I.E. I want my Excel data
file to be represented as a pure text file with rows to be
continuous/contiguous data fields and the row ending with a carriage
return/line feed.

Thank you for your time and help,
Scott Sewell
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board






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