Could anybody PLEASE help!??

I am trying to import a lot of seperate dat files into a single
worksheet, but every time i try and do this it opens up a seperate
sheet for each file!!

Is there any way i can import all the files, and also continue to
import as new ones are added

ANY help would be greatly appreciated


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Tuggers,

Excel opens a each file you open as a seperate worksheet.

You therefore have to copy the opened worksheet into the summary workbook.
This is quite easy to achive with VBA

The question is how do you sleect the files to import is it *.* or *.csv or
do you manually select them?


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Could anybody PLEASE help!??

I am trying to import a lot of seperate dat files into a single
worksheet, but every time i try and do this it opens up a seperate
sheet for each file!!

Is there any way i can import all the files, and also continue to
import as new ones are added

ANY help would be greatly appreciated


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did you do

Data=Import External Data = Import Data, then select Text and select your
file - walk through the import wizard and designate a location?

If you need code, turn on the macro recorder while you do it manually and
then adjust the recorded code.

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Could anybody PLEASE help!??

I am trying to import a lot of seperate dat files into a single
worksheet, but every time i try and do this it opens up a seperate
sheet for each file!!

Is there any way i can import all the files, and also continue to
import as new ones are added

ANY help would be greatly appreciated


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Ron de Bruin has sample code to merge a bunch of .csv files into one, then
import it.

Maybe you could modify it to work with your .dat files.

http://www.rondebruin.nl/csv.htm



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Could anybody PLEASE help!??

I am trying to import a lot of seperate dat files into a single
worksheet, but every time i try and do this it opens up a seperate
sheet for each file!!

Is there any way i can import all the files, and also continue to
import as new ones are added

ANY help would be greatly appreciated

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Dave Peterson

Thanks for the interest guys

I have been trying to open them via the open option in the file menu o
the menu bar. This seems to be the only way to import dat. files??
Then when i had selected them all and gone through the import tex
screens, each file is imported as a seperate worksheet.

If there is a better way, id be happy to try it.
Is anybody able to supply me with the required vba code to import th
entire contents of the folder into a single worksheet?

I would greatly appreciate it

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Hi

i don't know whether this would work in your case, but give it try.

Sub MultiImporttest()
Dim flname
Dim filename
Dim FileNum As Integer
Dim Counter As Long, maxrow As Long
Dim WorkResult As String
Dim ws As Worksheet
On Error GoTo ErrorCheck
maxrow = Cells.Rows.Count
'Ask for the name of the file.
filename = Application.GetOpenFilename(FileFilter:="all file (*.*),*.*",
MultiSelect:=True)
'Check for no entry.
If VarType(filename) = vbBoolean Then
Exit Sub
End If

Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Application.EnableEvents = False

Counter = Cells(Cells.Rows.Count, "a").End(xlUp).Row
For Each flname In filename
FileNum = FreeFile()
Open flname For Input As #FileNum
Do While Seek(FileNum) <= LOF(FileNum)
Application.StatusBar = "Importing Row " & _
Counter & " of text file " & flname
Line Input #FileNum, WorkResult
Set ws = Nothing
Set ws = ActiveSheet
ws.Select
Cells(Counter, 1) = WorkResult
If WorkResult < "" Then
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
Cells(Counter, 1).TextToColumns Destination:=Cells(Counter, 1),
DataType:=xlDelimited, TextQualifier:=xlDoubleQuote, ConsecutiveDelimiter:=False,
Tab:=False, Semicolon:=False, Comma:=True, Space:=False, Other:=False
End If
Counter = Counter + 1
If Counter maxrow Then
MsgBox "data have over max rows: " & maxrow
Exit Sub
End If
Loop
'Close the open text file.
Close
Next

'Reset the application to its normal operating environment.
Application.StatusBar = False
Application.EnableEvents = True
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
Exit Sub
ErrorCheck:
'Reset the application to its normal operating environment.
Application.StatusBar = False
Application.EnableEvents = True
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
MsgBox "An error occured in the code."
End Sub

keizi

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Thanks for the interest guys

I have been trying to open them via the open option in the file menu on
the menu bar. This seems to be the only way to import dat. files??
Then when i had selected them all and gone through the import text
screens, each file is imported as a seperate worksheet.

If there is a better way, id be happy to try it.
Is anybody able to supply me with the required vba code to import the
entire contents of the folder into a single worksheet?

I would greatly appreciate it.


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Sorry, I've forgot to add one if statement.

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Hi

i don't know whether this would work in your case, but give it try.

Sub MultiImporttest()
Dim flname
Dim filename
Dim FileNum As Integer
Dim Counter As Long, maxrow As Long
Dim WorkResult As String
Dim ws As Worksheet
On Error GoTo ErrorCheck
maxrow = Cells.Rows.Count
'Ask for the name of the file.
filename = Application.GetOpenFilename(FileFilter:="all file (*.*),*.*",
MultiSelect:=True)
'Check for no entry.
If VarType(filename) = vbBoolean Then
Exit Sub
End If

Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Application.EnableEvents = False

Counter = Cells(Cells.Rows.Count, "a").End(xlUp).Row

'===add a if statement below here
If Cells(Counter, "a") < "" Then
Counter = Counter + 1
End If
'===end

For Each flname In filename
FileNum = FreeFile()
Open flname For Input As #FileNum

keizi

WOW!!

That looks fantastic!!

The only trouble is im a bit of a vba novice!

The required dat. files are stored in a folder called 'Tricoder'
and the file is stored on T: drive (shared drive at my place of work)
Can you please show me where i would place this information.

Again, many thanks for the hel

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