Export excel worksheet to a text file

Question

I would like to know the simplest way to create a text file and then write ALL the data from a worksheet into that file (tab-delimited). I don't only want to write particular cells into the sheet (I want everything on the worksheet) but also don't want to have to have to write every cell. I know the command for writing cells is like this:

open "c:|OUTPUT.txt" for output as #1 print #1, cells(1,2) & cells(2,2) & cells(3,2) ... close

but is there a way to just write all the data from the sheet into a txt file? I want to run this on a loop for many worksheets.

Answer 1

Use the VBA SaveAs method to save it as a .txt by passing xlTextWindows as the FileFormat.

See this page for details on the SaveAs method.