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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.

Download Text Write Program

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.