Importing multiple data files

[Beawulf]

Hi all,
I've got 170 csv files that I'm looking to compile into excel so as to analyse them, but am hoping to avoid having to do that one by one, adding each as a seperate tab.

Does anyone have any ideas of how I could do this, e.g. a macro or script, or if there's an "add all as tabs" add-in or something? Is excel my best bet here?

Thanks!
Beawulf

 

[FrankSmith]

Hi all,
I've got 170 csv files that I'm looking to compile into excel so as to analyse them, but am hoping to avoid having to do that one by one, adding each as a seperate tab.

Does anyone have any ideas of how I could do this, e.g. a macro or script, or if there's an "add all as tabs" add-in or something? Is excel my best bet here?

Thanks!
Beawulf

I usually cheat with importing data files like this; I use the Record Macro button, import the file the way I want it, and then Stop Recording. That will give you the base code to import everything exactly how you want it, and then you can do more fancy things with the VBA it generates like use loops to determine the file name and what sheet it gets saved to. (There's probably a cleaner way of doing this, but this I feel is much faster). If your files are named properly (file1.txt, file2.txt, ... file100.txt), you could very easily use a For loop to construct the file path / name of the next report and create a new sheet to import to for it.