TextFileColumnDataTypes Property
Returns or sets an ordered array of constants that specify the data types applied to the corresponding columns in the text file that you’re importing into a query table. The default constant for each column is xlGeneral. Read/write Variant.
You can use the xlColumnDataType constants listed in the following table to specify the column data types used or the actions taken during the data import.
| Constant | Description |
|---|---|
| xlGeneralFormat | General |
| xlTextFormat | Text |
| xlSkipColumn | Skip column |
| xlDMYFormat | Day-Month-Year date format |
| xlDYMFormat | Day-Year-Month date format |
| xlEMDFormat | EMD date |
| xlMDYFormat | Month-Day-Year date format |
| xlMYDFormat | Month-Year-Day date format |
| xlYDMFormat | Year-Day-Month date format |
| xlYMDFormat | Year-Month-Day date format |
Remarks
Use this property only when your query table is based on data from a text file (with the QueryType property set to xlTextImport).
If you specify more elements in the array that there are columns, those values are ignored.
You can use xlEMDFormat only if Taiwanese language support is installed and selected. The xlEMDFormat constant specifies that Taiwanese era dates are being used.
Example
This example imports a fixed-width text file into a new query table on the first worksheet in the first workbook. The first column in the text file is five characters wide and is imported as text. The second column is four characters wide and is skipped. The remainder of the text file is imported into the third column and has the General format applied to it.
Set shFirstQtr = Workbooks(1).Worksheets(1)
Set qtQtrResults = shFirstQtr.QueryTables _
.Add(Connection := "TEXT;C:\My Documents\19980331.txt", _
Destination := shFirstQtr.Cells(1, 1))
With qtQtrResults
.TextFileParseType = xlFixedWidth
.TextFileFixedColumnWidths = Array(5, 4)
.TextFileColumnDataTypes = _
Array(xlTextFormat, xlSkipColumn, xlGeneralFormat)
.Refresh
End With