Would it be possible to write a vba or vb program that when executed would
resave
a list of .xls files into tab separated .txt files? Right now I do this
manually. I tried doing
a record/playback macro but that's not the way to go. Thanks very much for
any
assistance!

Jeff H.
jhoward1 [at] nc [dot] [rr] dot [com]

You can do this using an ADO (from VBA) recordset object and its GetString()
method to write to TAB delimited files.

I was hoping I could use the built in feature in Excel that allows
to Save As without reading and writing all of the records myself.

I saw some threads that indicated a method to do a Save As but I couldn't
find a define to indicate tab separated values.

Jeff
"AA2e72E" wrote in message
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You can do this using an ADO (from VBA) recordset object and its
GetString()
method to write to TAB delimited files.