TextFileTextQualifier Property

Microsoft Excel Visual Basic

TextFileTextQualifier Property

       

Returns or sets the text qualifier when you import a text file into a query table. The text qualifier specifies that the enclosed data is in text format. Read/write XlTextQualifier.

XlTextQualifier can be one of these XlTextQualifier constants.
xlTextQualifierNone
xlTextQualifierDoubleQuote default.
xlTextQualifierSingleQuote

expression.TextFileTextQualifier

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 sets the single quotation mark character as the text qualifier for the query table on the first worksheet in the first workbook.

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 = xlDelimited
    .TextFileTextQualifier = xlTextQualifierSingleQuote
    .Refresh
End With