Since the beginning of time, Excel has performed some annoying conversions. The conversions happened automatically when you imported from a CSV or Text file, Pasted from another application, or typed data in Excel.
Hello! I have a issue with making a code that will extract the data/table from the csv file to a designated Excel (.xlxs) file and sheet. The thing is that the full table is only visible when .csv file is open with Excel Power Query option (Data--> From Text/CSV).
Hi Excel Gods, I am looking to tweak below VBA code to be able to open X number of CSV file (; delimited) and to have the CSV file in the excel workbook as text (All columns). The current issue is that all the information per sheet are whitin one col thanks in advance Sub test() Dim...
Hi forum, I have a vba module with which I want to open .CSV files delimited by the | character. I couldn't get it to work, so I instead worked around it by having excel open a nonsense file (.cvs, but it does work). Since this isn't very handy for the user, I'd like to look at it again and...
When I save this file as a CSV and open it in Excel I now have 499,579 rows. But, when I go back and open this same exact file in notepad I have the original 499,846 rows. The only conclusion I can think of is that excel is automatically removing duplicates as soon as I open the file in excel.
Hey to all in this amazing community, I have the following code which I have put together so that the user can click a button in Excel and the user is taken to the File Picker to choose a CSV file to import into the spreadsheet as a table. The code works when it is static. What I mean by this...
or - Open the CSV file in Excel from the Data -> Get External Data -> Text menu/ribbon. Either of those methods will invoke the Import Wizard, giving your control over the incoming data. If you need to VBA code for that import, just turn on your Macro Recorder and record yourself importing the file manually using the steps above.
Excel will actually perform data conversions on your CSV file, and if anything looks like a number, it will treat it as one, thus dropping leading zeroes. If you want to view the TRUE contents of a CSV file, use a Text Editor like NotePad to view it after creating it. This will show you TRULY what the CSV file looks like.
I have a template/master spreadsheet which I would like to copy data into, from a csv file. Is it possible to create a macro in the active workbook to find said csv file, copy all the data (data range will always be variable, i.e. sometimes it may be 5000 rows from columns A - D, other times...
If you want to actually convert the file from a CSV file to an Excel file, you would need to open it as do a SaveAs and change the file type. Otherwise, if you just change the extension, you will probably get errors when you try to open the file, saying the format or extension is not valid.
