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The Text Write Program is a Microsoft Excel workbook with a macro program that writes any sheet of any open workbook to a text file with lots of options.
Setup Sheet.
Here you specify your options. There is help on the options. A typical setup sheet:
| File Name to write: | a.txt, or C:\My Documents\a.txt |
| Record Delimiter: Code/Character | 13,10 |
| Stop if Record Delimiter found in cell?: | Yes |
| Field Delimiter: Code/Character | , (comma) |
| Bracketing Code/Character (text qualifier): | " (quotation mark) |
| Bracket data fields?: | Yes |
| Bracket blank fields also?: | No |
| Skip blank rows?: | No |
| Write entire sheet?: | Yes |
| If no, Expand selection?: | No |
| If no, write rectangular?: | No |
Then you switch to the sheet to be written (in any open workbook), and press Ctrl-Shift-W. It writes the file, letting you know its progress.
The Text Write Program is now at the 1e level. Text Write Program-1e.xls. The following changes were made:
It can write sheets with more than 32K rows.
It disallows making any user changes while running to prevent incorrect output.