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user3119184
user3119184

Reputation: 1

Saving files as CSV using VBA - currently saving multiple files as worksheets

My original problem was finding out how to separate a file with 12000 rows into individual files with 1000 rows and keep the header. I found a great Q&A that does just that (with only one adjustment to number of rows), the link is here: How to split spreadsheet into multiple spreadsheets with set number of rows?

The only thing I need is for the script to save the files down as CSVs rather than Worksheets, but I can't see anything obvious in the script that defines the file type for me to change. FYI, I'm very new to this!

Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 0

Views: 526

Answers (1)

smackenzie
smackenzie

Reputation: 3022

As mentioned by @vba4all in the comments above, the expression for Workbook.SaveAs is

expression .SaveAs(FileName, FileFormat, Password, WriteResPassword, ReadOnlyRecommended, CreateBackup, AccessMode, ConflictResolution, AddToMru, TextCodepage, TextVisualLayout, Local)

You can visit this msdn article to read more about it.

To save the workbook as csv, you have to use

ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs Filename:="C:\Test.csv", FileFormat:=xlCSV

Please note that when you save the workbook as a csv with or without code, Excel will prompt you for confirmation. To avoid that you can set Application.DisplayAlerts to False

Here is an example

Application.DisplayAlerts = False
ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs Filename:="C:\Test.csv", FileFormat:=xlCSV
Application.DisplayAlerts = True

To read more about file formats, you may want to see this msdn link

Upvotes: 3

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