Generalized Macro
 

Hello,
I am very new to programming, I am a scientist by education.I have 2
questions:

1) I am trying to write a macro to do a simple calculation and make a graph
from two column of data. I have successfully recorded a macro for one set of
data. I need to repeat this process amny times. There will be many text files
that will contain the same columns, I want to macro to work on each, no
matter how long the columns are. I am trying to figure out how to generalize
the range variable so that someone can press a button after opening the text
file and get the graph in question.

2) I am also trying to find a way to easily import these text files into
Excel. If I right-click and open with...Excel, they open perfectly for what I
am trying to do, but if I open from inside Excel, I have to go through the
whole import menu. Can I create a form for importing that would open from a
button a menu for choosing the file and then open the file without the whole
import wizard?

Thank you for any advice,
Rebecca

Generalized Macro
 

1, outside loop each file
inside loop each cell in column of your choice
do your stuff
next cell
next file

2, record a macro
put it in a loop also

"sassycat8" wrote in message
...
Hello,
I am very new to programming, I am a scientist by education.I have 2
questions:

1) I am trying to write a macro to do a simple calculation and make a
graph
from two column of data. I have successfully recorded a macro for one set
of
data. I need to repeat this process amny times. There will be many text
files
that will contain the same columns, I want to macro to work on each, no
matter how long the columns are. I am trying to figure out how to
generalize
the range variable so that someone can press a button after opening the
text
file and get the graph in question.

2) I am also trying to find a way to easily import these text files into
Excel. If I right-click and open with...Excel, they open perfectly for
what I
am trying to do, but if I open from inside Excel, I have to go through the
whole import menu. Can I create a form for importing that would open from
a
button a menu for choosing the file and then open the file without the
whole
import wizard?

Thank you for any advice,
Rebecca