How to: Open Text Files as Workbooks
You can open a text file as a workbook. You must pass in the name of the text file you want to open. You can specify several optional parameters, such as which row number to start parsing on and the column format of the data in the file.
Applies to: The information in this topic applies to document-level projects and application-level projects for Excel 2007 and Excel 2010. For more information, see Features Available by Office Application and Project Type.
Example
Me.Application.Workbooks.OpenText("C:\Test.txt", _
StartRow:=3, _
DataType:=Excel.XlTextParsingType.xlDelimited, _
TextQualifier:=Excel.XlTextQualifier.xlTextQualifierNone, _
Comma:=True)
this.Application.Workbooks.OpenText(@"C:\Test.txt",
missing, 3,
Excel.XlTextParsingType.xlDelimited,
Excel.XlTextQualifier.xlTextQualifierNone,
missing, missing, missing, true, missing, missing, missing,
missing, missing, missing, missing, missing, missing);
Compiling the Code
This example requires the following components:
A comma-delimited text file named Test.txt that contains at least three lines of text.
The text file Test.txt to be stored on drive C.
See Also
Tasks
How to: Open XML Files as Workbooks