Thank you Asish.  This works great!

 

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On Behalf Of ashish koul
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 10:36 PM
To: excel-macros@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: $$Excel-Macros$$ Re: Macro for Converting txt to xls using Text
Import Wizard

 

Sub delimit_txt_file()
Dim s As Workbook

    Dim fNameAndPath As Variant
    fNameAndPath = Application.GetOpenFilename _
               (FileFilter:="Text Files (*.txt), *.txt", _
                Title:="Select File To Be Opened")
  
 Workbooks.OpenText Filename:=fNameAndPath, Origin:=xlWindows, _
StartRow:=1, DataType:=xlDelimited, TextQualifier:=xlDoubleQuote, _
ConsecutiveDelimiter:=False, Tab:=True, Semicolon:=False, Comma:=False _
, Space:=False, Other:=True, OtherChar:="|"
  
  Set s = ActiveWorkbook

s.Sheets(1).Cells.Select
    s.Sheets(1).Cells.EntireColumn.AutoFit
    
   Dim i As Long
   
  For i = 2 To s.Sheets(1).Range("a1").End(xlDown).Row
  
  s.Sheets(1).Cells(i, 3).Value = Application.Trim(s.Sheets(1).Cells(i,
3).Value & "|" & s.Sheets(1).Cells(i, 4).Value)
  
  
  If Right(s.Sheets(1).Cells(i, 3).Value, 1) = "|" Then
  
  s.Sheets(1).Cells(i, 3).Value = Left(s.Sheets(1).Cells(i, 3).Value,
Len(s.Sheets(1).Cells(i, 3).Value) - 1)
  End If
  
    If Left(s.Sheets(1).Cells(i, 3).Value, 1) = "|" Then
   s.Sheets(1).Cells(i, 3).Value = Right(s.Sheets(1).Cells(i, 3).Value,
Len(s.Sheets(1).Cells(i, 3).Value) - 1)
  End If
  
  Next i
  s.Sheets(1).Columns("D:D").Delete Shift:=xlToLeft
  
End Sub




On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Susan 1 <sunni...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Jsin -

I've attached an example of the formatted spreadsheet and the raw data txt
file, the macro or VB  I need would automatically format the txt file into
the spreadsheet style. 

 

Thanks for you help on this!

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 4:54 AM, JsinSk <jsin...@gmail.com> wrote:

I can guess how you want it formatted, but is it possible for you to
attach a sample excel sheet with the desired tabs/columns how you want
it?

On May 18, 3:31 pm, Susan 1 <sunni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi ~
>
> Wondering if you could assist me with the Text import wizard to configure
> the columns and tab delimiter for the attached txt file.  And then send me
> the steps.
>
> I will be needing to do this every week to the same types of txt files,
> importing into Excel and I'd like to create a Macro for this but cannot
> figure out how to set the tab/columns.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sunnie
>
>  2065409868_05-03-2011.txt
> 6KViewDownload

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