My company has recently upgraded us from Windows2000/Excel2000 to
WindowsXP/Excel2003.

I am having a problem converting .xls to .csv that uses ";" semicolon as the
separator.

The Regional Setting for List Separator is ";" semicolon.

My old code is this:

Awb.SaveAs Filename:=Left(Awb.Name, Len(Awb.Name) - 4), FileFormat:=xlCSV

This issue seems to be specific to the code I am using - I have tried to
manually save an xls file to csv and it worked fine.

Is there a way to fix my code so that the .csv uses ";" as the separator ?

Thank you in advance.

Maybe you could write your own exporting program that would behave exactly the
way you want:

Here are three sites that you could steal some code from:

Earl Kiosterud's Text Write program:
www.smokeylake.com/excel
(or directly: http://www.smokeylake.com/excel/text_write_program.htm)

Chip Pearson's:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/imptext.htm

J.E. McGimpsey's:
http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/textfiles.html

(or maybe you could build your own formula and copy|paste into Notepad.)

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Take a look at Earl's program. I bet it does what you want.

carl wrote:

My company has recently upgraded us from Windows2000/Excel2000 to
WindowsXP/Excel2003.

I am having a problem converting .xls to .csv that uses ";" semicolon as the
separator.

The Regional Setting for List Separator is ";" semicolon.

My old code is this:

Awb.SaveAs Filename:=Left(Awb.Name, Len(Awb.Name) - 4), FileFormat:=xlCSV

This issue seems to be specific to the code I am using - I have tried to
manually save an xls file to csv and it worked fine.

Is there a way to fix my code so that the .csv uses ";" as the separator ?

Thank you in advance.

--

Dave Peterson

Thanks Dave. You have been very helpful now and in the past.

This sounds like a glitch in the excel 2003 ?

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

Maybe you could write your own exporting program that would behave exactly the
way you want:

Here are three sites that you could steal some code from:

Earl Kiosterud's Text Write program:
www.smokeylake.com/excel
(or directly: http://www.smokeylake.com/excel/text_write_program.htm)

Chip Pearson's:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/imptext.htm

J.E. McGimpsey's:
http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/textfiles.html

(or maybe you could build your own formula and copy|paste into Notepad.)

==============
Take a look at Earl's program. I bet it does what you want.

carl wrote:

My company has recently upgraded us from Windows2000/Excel2000 to
WindowsXP/Excel2003.

I am having a problem converting .xls to .csv that uses ";" semicolon as the
separator.

The Regional Setting for List Separator is ";" semicolon.

My old code is this:

Awb.SaveAs Filename:=Left(Awb.Name, Len(Awb.Name) - 4), FileFormat:=xlCSV

This issue seems to be specific to the code I am using - I have tried to
manually save an xls file to csv and it worked fine.

Is there a way to fix my code so that the .csv uses ";" as the separator ?

Thank you in advance.

--

Dave Peterson

I remember earlier versions of excel behaving the same way. Am I
misremembering?

But I'd say it was more VBA being USA centric.

(It's only a bug if you don't use the comma as your delimiter <vbg.)


carl wrote:

Thanks Dave. You have been very helpful now and in the past.

This sounds like a glitch in the excel 2003 ?

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

Maybe you could write your own exporting program that would behave exactly the
way you want:

Here are three sites that you could steal some code from:

Earl Kiosterud's Text Write program:
www.smokeylake.com/excel
(or directly: http://www.smokeylake.com/excel/text_write_program.htm)

Chip Pearson's:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/imptext.htm

J.E. McGimpsey's:
http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/textfiles.html

(or maybe you could build your own formula and copy|paste into Notepad.)

==============
Take a look at Earl's program. I bet it does what you want.

carl wrote:

My company has recently upgraded us from Windows2000/Excel2000 to
WindowsXP/Excel2003.

I am having a problem converting .xls to .csv that uses ";" semicolon as the
separator.

The Regional Setting for List Separator is ";" semicolon.

My old code is this:

Awb.SaveAs Filename:=Left(Awb.Name, Len(Awb.Name) - 4), FileFormat:=xlCSV

This issue seems to be specific to the code I am using - I have tried to
manually save an xls file to csv and it worked fine.

Is there a way to fix my code so that the .csv uses ";" as the separator ?

Thank you in advance.

--

Dave Peterson


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Dave Peterson