- #EXCEL TEXT IMPORT WIZARD PREVIEW NOT SHOW ALL COLUMNS FULL#
- #EXCEL TEXT IMPORT WIZARD PREVIEW NOT SHOW ALL COLUMNS CODE#
Open CSV in Notepad and copy&paste all values to Excel. Note how line 2 (double quote method) and line 3 (tab method) are not changed by Excel Both ways will force Excel to treat the value as textĬSV in Excel when opened via double click If you have access to the source which creates your CSV, you can alter the CSV syntax.Įnclose every value with double quotation marks and prefix an equal sign like ="00001" or prepend a tab to every value.
#EXCEL TEXT IMPORT WIZARD PREVIEW NOT SHOW ALL COLUMNS FULL#
Temporarily renaming the source extension from CSV to TXT and then back to CSV is a valid workaround if you have full control over the source file You can read more about this behavior on Stack Overflow Normally, this parameter lets you choose every column format, But not if the extension is CSV. Use Workbooks.OpenText method → Example codeĭownside: This method is still using Excel's internal CSV import handler with all its flawsĭownside: Additionally, the fieldinfo parameter of OpenText is ignored if the extension is CSV.
#EXCEL TEXT IMPORT WIZARD PREVIEW NOT SHOW ALL COLUMNS CODE#
Use QueryTables (the VBA counterpart to Get external data) → Example codeĭownside: Slightly more code than OpenText method Open a CSV with Double Click or Excel's Open with dialogĭownside: Excel's internal CSV handler misinterprets values with a leading - or = sign as a formula rather than textĭownside: You will lose leading zeros from binary values like 0001 due to Excel's auto detected column format Upside: Treats all values correctly as text without any exceptionĭownside: More steps than a simple Double-click Whichever way you cut it, you're stuck having to change the extension to something other than ".csv", sorry! After that, you're home free.Įxcel → Data → Get external data → Select all columns with Shift and choose Text So the code above "works", but gets killed by this ridiculous Excel behaviour. As soon as you change the extension, that same code will yield the correct results. I'll just quote the comment to the question, which is more descriptive:įor reasons unknown, even if you explicitly provide formats for all columns in VBA, Excel will ignore it if the file extension is CSV. Note that wizard solution works just fine, but if you're opening many files then you may, like me, grow weary of, each time, scrolling to column 60 in order to Shift-Click it.ĮDIT states in the comment below that this "doesn't work" and "eats spaces and leading zeroes". Usage: OpenCsvAsText "C:\MyDir\MyFile.txt"Ĭomma-separated file is now open as Excel sheet with all columns formatted as text. '// Open the file using the specified column formatsĬonsecutiveDelimiter:=False, Comma:=True, _ ' What's this? See VBA help for OpenText method (FieldInfo argument). VarColumnFormat(iCol - 1) = Array(iCol, xlTextFormat) '// Read first line of file to figure out how many columns there are This works: Sub OpenCsvAsText(ByVal strFilepath As String) I'm using Excel 2003, but I'll take answers for 2007 if that's what you know. Is there a way to do specifically this: Always format all columns in opened CSV files as text, without manually selecting each column every time during import? I know about "armoring" the numbers with quotes, too, but the files I get don't come like that and I was hoping to avoid having to pre-process the files so Excel doesn't screw them up. Since every answer for this oft-asked question on the internet suggests either some means of converting the formatted numbers back once the file is open (which won't work for me - I want to solve the general problem, not a few specific cases) or manually selecting the format type of each column (which I don't want to do), I'm looking for a way to set a global preference or style such that all columns of all CSV files opened are always formatted as text. For files with 50-60 columns, this is impractical. csv and use the import wizard to specify the format of each column individually. As far as I can tell, the only way to prevent this from happening on import is to rename the file so the extension isn't. When I do, it formats columns containing numbers, which makes them useless for my purposes. Though I try to avoid it, I occasionally have to open a CSV file in Excel.
0 kommentar(er)
