Kathryn Bassett
kathryn at bassett.net
Sun Sep 21 21:12:04 CDT 2003
I don't use Excel on a regular basis, and even in QuattroPro, I don't use macros. I was wondering if one of you are good with Excel (2000) macros, can make me a macro to do the following - if it's possible to automate what I want to do. I will have files with a name pattern of output1928.txt - the 1928 can be any four numbers (it is a 24hr time). I'm putting a sample file at: http://www.ourmailinglist.org/misc/output1928.txt What I currently do manually is: (first half) open Excel and File > Open, navigate to the text file, and open it. That starts the Text Import Wizard. I click next, as I use the default "delimited" choose comma click next skip first two third, fifth, and seventh are text, fourth and sixth are general finish (second half) Next, I insert a row at the top, and label them (lowercase) activity bib timetext day checkpoint (last) save as Excel, with same prefix name output1928.xls So, is there a way to do at least the first half, but preferably both halves, using a macro? (Remember the AC100 race that you all have helped me with? Well, this is what I have to do with the raw data before imorting it to the database.) If it can't be done with a macro, that's ok as I have my notes. But if it can, it will be a big help as I have to do this routing about two dozen times during the race. -- Kathryn Rhinehart Bassett (Pasadena CA) "Genealogy is my bag" "GH is my soap" kathryn at bassett.net http://bassett.net