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Simone
Simone

Reputation: 11

Vba open files without extension from folder and save as different format

I am trying write a macro to get every file in a folder to open and then save as an xlsx file. The files I am working with don't have a file extension, the data is tab delimited and opens fine manually. I have this code to open every file in a folder, however I haven't been able to get it to open files without a file extension. 

Sub Open_All_Files()
Dim oWbk As Workbook
Dim sFil As String
Dim sPath As String

sPath = "E:\Macro" 'location of files
ChDir sPath
sFil = Dir("*.xlsx") 'change or add formats
Do While sFil <> "" 
Set oWbk = Workbooks.Open(sPath & "\" & sFil) 'opens the file

'Code to save as different file extension would go here

oWbk.Close True 'close the workbook, saving changes
sFil = Dir
Loop ' End of LOOP
End Sub

I also don't know how to get each file to save as an xlsx file.

I'm completely new to vba so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 10329

Answers (2)

user2480047
user2480047

Reputation:

I understand that this is the code you are looking for:

Sub Open_All_Files()
   Dim oWbk As Workbook
   Dim sFil As String
   Dim sPath As String

   sPath = "E:\Macro" 'location of files
   ChDrive "E" '-> if E is different than the current drive (if you didn't change it before, it is the drive where Office is installed)
   ChDir sPath
   sFil = Dir("*.*") 'change or add formats
   Do While (sFil <> ""  And InStr(sFil, ".") = 0)
      NewFileName = sPath & "\" & sFil & ".xlsx"

      On Error Resume Next
      Name sFil As NewFileName 'Add extension to file

      Set oWbk = Workbooks.Open(NewFileName) 'Open file as XLSX

      'Do anything with the workbook

      oWbk.Close True 'close the workbook, saving changes

      sFil = Dir("*.*")
   Loop ' End of LOOP
End Sub

Upvotes: 1

Andy G
Andy G

Reputation: 19367

Your current code is only looking for files that already have the .xlsx extension. Try Dir('*').

If you are just renaming the files then I wouldn't attempt to open them. I would use FileCopy

FileCopy source, destination

where source and destination are both strings. For example, the following worked for me (on Windows XP):

    FileCopy "testthis", "testthis.xlsx"

You could then use Kill to delete the old file

Kill pathname

Upvotes: 0

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