TextFilePlatform Property

Returns or sets the origin of the text file you’re importing into the query table. This property determines which code page is used during the data import. The default value is the current setting of the File Origin option in the Text File Import Wizard. Read/write XlPlatform.

expression   Required. An expression that returns one of the objects in the Applies To list.

Remarks

Use this property only when your query table is based on data from a text file (with the QueryType property set to xlTextImport).

Example

This example imports an MS-DOS text file into the query table on the first worksheet in the first workbook, and then it refreshes the query table.

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
    .TextFilePlatform = xlMSDOS
    .TextFileParseType = xlDelimited
    .TextFileTabDelimiter = True
    .Refresh
End With