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Appending to a Non-Document Text File

Summary: Do you need to write information out to a text file so it can be used by other programs? You can easily accomplish this task using a macro, as described here. (This tip works with Microsoft Excel 97, Excel 2000, Excel 2002, Excel 2003, and Excel 2007.)

When using a macro to write information to a text file, you may want to add information to an existing file, rather than creating a new text file from scratch. To do this, all you need to do is open the file for Append rather than Output. The following code shows this process:

Open "MyFile.Dat" For Append As #1
For J = 1 to NewValues
    Print #1, UserVals(OrigVals + J)
Next J
Close #1

When the file is opened for Append mode, any new information is added to the end of the file, without disturbing the existing contents.

Tip #2536 applies to Microsoft Excel versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007


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