Modules & VBA :: Importing Text Using Text Wizard
Jun 2, 2015
I have a list of 30 files I need to import into my access database. The files in the folder are named
1. Txt
2. Txt
3. Txt
4. Txt
5. Txt
6. Txt
7. Txt
8. Txt
When I did the first import I did it by doing an import text file, located the file 1.txt. The Import Text Wizard opened and I picked Fixed With so I could break out the information myself.After dividing that information I hit advanced and changed the field name to match what they should be. Next, then it ask me to save Import Steps and I said yes.
First: how I can use the saved import to import this file again using the text wizard
Second: how can I set it so it imports a numbers of files, maybe one or maybe all 30?
Third: how difficult would it be to all the file name in the first or last column?
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Dec 17, 2013
Currently I have a code that imports a single text file into a table without problems.
I need to be able to selecte multiple text files and import them at once.
Here is my current working code.....
Code:
Private Sub Import_Click()
Dim strFilter As String
Dim strInputFileName As String
strFilter = ahtAddFilterItem(strFilter, "Text File (*.txt)", "*.txt")
strSaveFileName = ahtCommonFileOpenSave( _
OpenFile:=True, _
Filter:=strFilter, _
DialogTitle:="Please select new file...", _
Flags:=ahtOFN_OVERWRITEPROMPT Or ahtOFN_READONLY)
DoCmd.TransferText acImportDelim, "Import Specs", "Data Table", strSaveFileName, True, ""
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Mar 17, 2014
I want a string of code that allows me to import a series of delimited text files into access using VBA. I have the first bit of code down:
Code:
DoCmd.TransferText acImportDelim, deltxtimptbl, "Delivery(local)", "msfs3109data1shareeveryoneprorep ranhistDelivery" & currentdate & ".txt"
The text files hold data for a specific days work. Each day has its own text file. I would like to be able to import the text files within a specific date range, specified by the user. Below is the total code i have for my form button:
rivate Sub Command0_Click()
Dim startdate As String
Dim enddate As String
Dim currentdatex
Dim count As Integer
count = 0
[Code] .....
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Nov 4, 2007
I had posted this a couple weeks back but it didn't help much in the end, thanks to anybody who posted there anyway though.
I've used the Lookup wizard to make a lookup menu in one of my tables. The field I tell it to refer to in another table is a Text type. However, after the lookup wizard completes the type of the field which is uses the menu is changed to Number.
At this point it can be kind of whacked out and inconsistent, but what usually happens is if I select a value from the lookup field it refers to the auto number that I used as a primary key for the looked up value.
I created a new table, and tried to do a lookup field for for the same fields and got the same problem - I think it's an issue with the field I'm looking up.
I'm 100% sure I didn't do anything stupid like select the ID auto number for the lookup... So what's going on?
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Mar 19, 2015
I am having some problem regarding the way the options in a lookup field is displayed. Currently the options are displayed numerically instead of displaying the actual text.
I have three tables which are ContactPersonnelT, OrganizationT and TrainingDonorT.
One of the fields in the ContactPersonnelT table is, Affiliation. This field is a lookup value (look up wizard) which comes from the OrganizationT table field, OrganizationName.
In the TrainingDonorT table I have a field called, ContactPersonnel. This field is a lookup value which comes from the ContactPersonnelT table field, ContactPersonName. In the drop down list of the ContactPersonnel, besides the ContactPersonName. I also want to display the Affiliation field. However, instead of displaying the text in the OrganizationName field, a numerical value is showing.
How to change the display to text instead of the numerical value.
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Jun 25, 2014
I am exporting a large query to a delimited text file. I'm finding that it takes more than 5 minutes just to get the Export Text Wizard to load, and I'm guessing that's because Access is running the query as it loads the wizard.
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Jul 24, 2015
We need to move rich text from an Access memo field to a Word text box. So far the best Ive been able to come up with is in the code below. In this code pprs!What is a record set field of a table memo field that is bound to a text box enabled for rich text. The rich text seems to be stored as html as so I can get word to convert it by enclosing it in html tags.
Dim What As Word.Shape
Set What = doc.Shapes.AddTextbox(msoTextOrientationHorizontal , doc.PageSetup.LeftMargin, 225, 534, 0)
Dim sPath As String
sPath = "G:Temp.html"
Open sPath For Output As 1
Print #1, "<HTML>" & pprs!What & " </HTML>"
Close #1
What.TextFrame.TextRange.InsertFile (sPath)
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May 13, 2014
I have a form on which there is a series of text box controls relating to different frequencies. At the moment I enter a value in to each of these manually.
However, I would like to have an unbound text box where I can paste in all the values (6 or 8 of them) from excel and then press a button and they would be copied in to the individual boxes.
So far I have my design:
I'm not sure where to start with regard to the code as I don't know how to handle delimited text - is it column delimited in excel?
I imagine some sort of loop, such as a do until will be required but again not sure.
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Sep 5, 2013
I have some vba where I'm importing a text file and splitting it out into a table. For the most part its working just fine.
But I have a line of data that I need to pull out the string right after "Old" - Murphy and right after "New" ZMurphy
Acc# : 111111 This is test data, Person : 22222 Old Murphy New ZMurphy
I'm thinking Instr() could do this but I'm unable to get it to work.
I am using Access 2010...
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Jun 5, 2013
I'm trying to figure out at what point an error message occurs while a database is closing. This problem only occurs if someone clicks on the red close button on the top right of the screen when there are several forms open. If the user exists normally there is NO problem.
I am attempting to use the print statement to write to a text file to track what is happening as the database shuts down. Unfortunately, the open (print) statement, when issued, zaps any prior contents which precludes having a full printed record. I am hoping for a print syntax that would allow appending.
Code:
Open "ErrorReport.txt" for Output as #1
Appended text to the file to show what is happening in that event.
Close #1
The program, in closing, does stop with an error message that a certain file can't be found. But when I click on debug, the program simply closes. I have also commented out VBA references to the file that can't be found, but the error still persists .
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Aug 28, 2014
Is it possible to have a command button on a form to run the Text File Import Into a Table Wizard?
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Feb 8, 2006
I want to import a text file that is one continuous string at present when i try to import the file it treats the data as one row.
I would like to split so that a new row is created wherever an apostrophe
appears in the string IE (') I can use this as the delimiter when importing as one row, but for some reason it creates errors after field 30
I've included a sample of the data
Cheers
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Feb 22, 2008
I have a database that a user wanted created. They gave me code used in another database to import the text file automatically using code. I looked at the code but I don't see where the file is coming from. I am not familiar with the transfertext code. I need to import a text file into an access table. The text file needs cleaning up because it comes from another program and it has breaks and the header repeats in the middle of the file several different times. I need code to clean up before it is imported into the table. I can't see how this code works enough to use it:
Code:
Private Sub cmdImport_Click()
Dim mResponse As String
Dim mDir As String
Dim intRecordLength As Integer
Dim strRecord As String
Dim strRecordType As String
Dim strSQL As String
Dim strID As String
Dim strDate As String
Dim strLev As String
Dim strCode As String
Dim strBranch As String
'************** Check for populated stat table
If DCount("[ID]", "tblStats") > 0 Then
MsgBox "Clear previous data before importing a new file.", vbOKOnly, "Clear Data"
Exit Sub
End If
'************** End Check
'************** Get File
mResponse = GetOpenFile_CLT(mDir, "Select file to be imported.")
mResponse = LCase$(mResponse)
If mResponse = "" Then
'If no path specified, abort
MsgBox "No file selected, import cancelled."
Exit Sub
End If
mDir = mResponse
Do While Right$(mDir, 1) <> ""
mDir = Left$(mDir, Len(mDir) - 1)
Loop
'************* End Get File
'************* Set Label/Form
Me.lblProcess.Caption = "Importing " & mResponse
DoCmd.Hourglass False
DoCmd.RepaintObject acForm, "frmImport"
'************* End Label/Form
'************* Start Import
Open mResponse For Input As 1
Do While Not EOF(1)
intRecordLength = 28
Input #1, strRecord
If Len(strRecord) < intRecordLength Then
GoTo sLoop
End If
'If length is 41
If Len(strRecord) > intRecordLength Then
strID = Trim(Left(strRecord, 12))
strDate = Trim(Mid(strRecord, 14, 11))
strLev = Trim(Mid(strRecord, 26, 3))
strCode = Trim(Mid(strRecord, 33, 2))
strBranch = Trim(Mid(strRecord, 40, 2))
End If
'If length is 28
If Len(strRecord) = intRecordLength Then
strDate = Left(strRecord, 11)
strCode = Mid(strRecord, 20, 2)
strBranch = Mid(strRecord, 27, 2)
End If
'Insert into table
strSQL = "INSERT INTO tblStats VALUES ('" & strID & "','" & strDate & "','" & _
strLev & "','" & strCode & "','" & strBranch & "');"
CurrentDb.Execute (strSQL)
sLoop:
Loop
Close 1
'********** End Import
sExit:
'************* Set Label/Form
Me.lblProcess.Caption = "Import Complete " & mResponse
DoCmd.Hourglass False
DoCmd.RepaintObject acForm, "frmImport"
'************* End Label/Form
End Sub
Please help
Thanks
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Mar 25, 2015
I have a form with tabular format containing a text box with the name of session and text box with the name of classSession. This form containing multiple records but when i want to copy the value of session to the classSession text box the copy function is only applied to the first record and not applying to another records.
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May 1, 2006
Hi!
I'm trying to import csv files into an Access 97 database, but the filename is different each time otherwise I would just use a commandbutton with the transfertext macro.
I've been searching for help to browse to a file and keep coming back to the same few pages but not being a programmer I can't figure out how to use the code.
Can anyone help me with simple instructions on how to do this?
Thanks.
Anna.:confused:
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Aug 7, 2006
We have received a zip file from a new client containing several thousand loans. The problem is that when I open the file as text all of the data is in one "field" meaning instead of going across the data goes down.
loan type,
loan number,
origination date,
loan term,
lo type,
etc....
Then it starts over with the next loan. There are over 17,000 lines.
How can I import the text file and have the loans go across. Even when I have imported the file using comma delimited it still imports them going down. Even if the comma delimited would work, I would still have issues because Access would not know when the new loan began to move it to the next row.
Any thoughts or suggestions? Sorry for my rambling.
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Jan 14, 2008
hi guys,
i am importing a tab seperated file into a table, and one of the fields is a user comment.
all is well -- until a record is imported that contains comment with a carriage return followed by some more text. the text after the carriage return is imported as the next record.
if the file is tab seperated, why is the carriage return causing the import to act in this way?
thanks
rik.
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May 23, 2005
I have a .csv (MS Excel) file I need to import, but one of the fields contains rich text format text.
Is there anyway to clean this up before or after it is imported?
Thanks,
T.J.
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May 27, 2005
Hey,
I have a text file i wish to link up to one of my tables. The problem is that even if i try to import data from that file i get "Text file specifikation field separator matches decimal separator or text delimiter." message and after that one an err that the file cant be imported. Does anyone know why?
Thats the sample of my file:
'PV','045.302','KROG VEN S PNEU POG','JOHN-VALVE + AIR TORQUE','JV-9301NC-BW + AT051DA','','','','15','8','VANI','','1.4408','PTF E','ZRK'
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Feb 7, 2008
All,
I have a database that I import text files to create tables. I ve been doing this awhile but now I have to pass it on to someone else to do and are trying to find a better way. this is what I've been doing: I import the text file into a new table. Then I copy and paste the data to the corresponding table. I know I can do an append query to do this but its about 12 text files I have to import into 12 different tables and I didn't want to take the time. I then run a query to combine and sum data from two different tables. The problem is that I have to copy and paste because if I import the text files directly into the corresponding table, the query don't run. I've tried change the field data type in the import wizard but it still doesn't work. My table datatype fields are: field1-text field2-number and field3-number. There is not field for number in the wizard but I use double as a field size in the design table so I select this in the wizard. I don't know how to resolve this other than spending time to create an append query or cut and paste. Please help
Thanks
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Sep 14, 2005
I have source data that is tab delimited, but the data is interspersed.
<tab>T1F1<tab>T1F2<tab><tab>T1F3<eoln>
T2F1<tab>T2F2<tab>T2F3<tab>T2F4<tab>T2F5<tab>T2F6...<eoln>
T2F1<tab>T2F2<tab>T2F3<tab>T2F4<tab>T2F5<tab>T2F6...<eoln>
<tab>T1F1<tab>T1F2<tab><tab>T1F3<eoln>
T2F1<tab>T2F2<tab>T2F3<tab>T2F4<tab>T2F5<tab>T2F6...<eoln>
That sort of gives a feel for how the data is laid out. T1F1, means the data here goes into the first field of Table1, T2F1 means the data goes in the first field of Table2.
You can tell the difference etween table1 and table2 data because table1 data starts with a tab, and table2 data does not.
Can Access directly import this data?
I haven't found anything that would work, but hey, I am known to overlook the obvious solution, so I hope someone can help.
Thanks,
David
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Oct 26, 2006
Hi! There was a problem that one of the members had a while back, and the solution was never posted. Now, I am having the exact same problem. Here's the link.
http://forums.aspfree.com/microsoft-access-help-18/importing-multiple-text-files-125634.html
When I compile, it works ok, but then when I click my command button, it says I can't import this file. Any ideas?
KellyJo
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Jun 7, 2005
Dear All,
I need some help. I am writing a database for my new and small company. I receive internet orders from my ISP in an email. I want to find a simple way of automatically importing these emails into my "Customer Information" table.
The issue is that I have no control on the format of the email I receive from my ISP. The data is fixed width and stores the information horizontally rather than in columns. For example:
Quantity : 1
Price : GBP 199.00
Delivery : GBP 5.00
Total : GBP 204.00
I have been exploring the GetData option and using the advance settings to align fields. It seems (and I am not an expert user of Access) that the GetData function relies on the import source to be aligned in vertical columns rather than horizontally. This makes mapping the fields almost impossible.
Does anyone have a clever work-around? Either in Access or manipulating the data before it goes into the database?
Many thanks, Matthew (matthew@byatt.com)
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Oct 13, 2005
I am trying to import a field into a data, which is either a number, a number and text or just text. Within Excel the format has been set to text. The data type for the field in Access has been set to text and yet for those records which are only numbers when imported the record is shown as a number in scientific format. Does anyone have any ideas how I can get the number to be a number in its full format?
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Sep 19, 2004
I have a large Microsoft Word document that has a table. My delema is, I want to bring each row of the Word table into records in Access table. The problem is the way the text is formated. This is an example of how each table entry looks like in word:
__________________________________________________ _____________________________
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you.
- - - Mary Bly
__________________________________________________ ______________________________
A cat isn't fussy - just so long as you remember he likes his milk in the shallow, rose-patterned saucer and his fish on the blue plate. From which he will take it, and eat it off the floor.
- - - Arthur Bridges
__________________________________________________ _______________________________
Do you have any idea how I can import this text formated as such into Access?
Thank you in advance - John
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May 27, 2005
I imported a table into Access from a SAP generated text file. The integrity of the data is fine after import. I then created a new table from the original that has the exact same amount of records and has the same unique field, which is MATERIAL. The problem I have is when I join the two tables in a query, Access returns approx 140,000 records. I am doing a regular join, what could be the problem? Is it possible the table data types are not formated correctly, b.c I imported them all as text so Access would import all lines.
I look forward to anyone's response.
TIA
Ease
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