Worked great. Understood the process but now I want to import a second file
after the end of the first file.

Same file twice, fisrt in a Delimited format - to extraxct the header info
(fisrt 20 lines). But then I want to open the file again and extract the data
in a Fixed Width format undernear the header infor above.

The rest of the file will vary in length, from 1000 to 30,000.

Thanks



Dave Peterson wrote:

I'd just import it to a new workbook, then copy what I want and paste to where I
want it. Then close the new workbook.

Option Explicit
Sub testme01()

Dim DestCell As Range
Dim TextWks As Worksheet

Set DestCell = ActiveSheet.Range("a10")

Workbooks.OpenText Filename:="C:\yourfilenamehere.txt", _
StartRow:=1, DataType:=xlDelimited, TextQualifier:=xlDoubleQuote, _
ConsecutiveDelimiter:=False, Tab:=True, Semicolon:=False, _
Comma:=False, Space:=False, Other:=False, FieldInfo:=Array(1, 1)

Set TextWks = ActiveSheet

TextWks.Range("1:35").Copy _
Destination:=DestCell

TextWks.Parent.Close savechanges:=False

End Sub

Record a macro when you do the importing and replace my Opentext line with
yours.


Dan wrote:

I want to import a file into excel but I want to limit the number of lines
that is imported. For example the file may be 150 lines but I only want the
first 35. I want to automate this task.

Also I want the to import the data at a specific line in excel - not A1,
somewhere around A10.

Thanks