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Re: Importing to Excel
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Re: Importing to Excel


  • Subject: Re: Importing to Excel
  • From: David Wignall <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 06:53:38 +1200

on 15/8/2003 6:41 AM, Courtney Moore at email@hidden wrote:

> On 8/14/03 1:34 AM, "David Wignall" <email@hidden> wrote:

>> tell application "Microsoft Excel"
>>
>> set TextFileToImport to (choose file) as string
>>
>> OpenText TextFileToImport with CommaDelimiter
>> set NumberFormat of Range ("B:B") to "#.000000"
>> Save ActiveWorkbook In (((path to desktop) as string) & "Text
>> Import.xls") As xlNormal -- save... is one line
>>
>> end tell
> I tried the syntax you gave me but it is failing on the
> "Open Text TextFileToImport with commaDelimiter"
>
> And yes I did set TextFileToImport to the name of the file I wanted to
> import??

Did you use the entire file path as in "HD:Users:You:Documents:Example.txt"?

--
Dave
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