' ---------------------- Directory Choosing Helper Functions ---------------------' Excel and VBA do not provide any convenient directory

chooser or file chooser ' dialogs, but these functions will provide a reference to a system DLL ' with the necessary capabilities Private Type BROWSEINFO ' used by the function GetFolderName hOwner As Long pidlRoot As Long pszDisplayName As String lpszTitle As String ulFlags As Long lpfn As Long lParam As Long iImage As Long End Type Private Declare Function SHGetPathFromIDList Lib "shell32.dll" _ Alias "SHGetPathFromIDListA" (ByVal pidl As Long, ByVal pszPath As String) A s Long Private Declare Function SHBrowseForFolder Lib "shell32.dll" _ Alias "SHBrowseForFolderA" (lpBrowseInfo As BROWSEINFO) As Long Function GetFolderName(Msg As String) As String ' returns the name of the folder selected by the user Dim bInfo As BROWSEINFO, path As String, r As Long Dim X As Long, pos As Integer bInfo.pidlRoot = 0& ' Root folder = Desktop If IsMissing(Msg) Then bInfo.lpszTitle = "Select a folder." ' the dialog title Else bInfo.lpszTitle = Msg ' the dialog title End If bInfo.ulFlags = &H1 ' Type of directory to return X = SHBrowseForFolder(bInfo) ' display the dialog ' Parse the result path = Space$(512) r = SHGetPathFromIDList(ByVal X, ByVal path) If r Then pos = InStr(path, Chr$(0)) GetFolderName = Left(path, pos - 1) Else GetFolderName = "" End If End Function '---------------------- END Directory Chooser Helper Functions --------------------Public Sub DoTheExport() Dim FName As Variant Dim Sep As String Dim wsSheet As Worksheet Dim nFileNum As Integer Dim csvPath As String Sep = InputBox("Enter a single delimiter character (e.g., comma or semi-colon)", _ "Export To Text File") 'csvPath = InputBox("Enter the full path to export CSV files to: ")

csvPath = GetFolderName("Choose the folder to export CSV files to:") If csvPath = "" Then MsgBox ("You didn't choose an export directory. Nothing will be exported.") Exit Sub End If For Each wsSheet In Worksheets wsSheet.Activate nFileNum = FreeFile Open csvPath & "\" & _ wsSheet.Name & ".csv" For Output As #nFileNum ExportToTextFile CStr(nFileNum), Sep, False Close nFileNum Next wsSheet End Sub

Public Sub ExportToTextFile(nFileNum As Integer, _ Sep As String, SelectionOnly As Boolean) Dim Dim Dim Dim Dim Dim Dim Dim WholeLine As String RowNdx As Long ColNdx As Integer StartRow As Long EndRow As Long StartCol As Integer EndCol As Integer CellValue As String

Application.ScreenUpdating = False On Error GoTo EndMacro: If SelectionOnly = True Then With Selection StartRow = .Cells(1).Row StartCol = .Cells(1).Column EndRow = .Cells(.Cells.Count).Row EndCol = .Cells(.Cells.Count).Column End With Else With ActiveSheet.UsedRange StartRow = .Cells(1).Row StartCol = .Cells(1).Column EndRow = .Cells(.Cells.Count).Row EndCol = .Cells(.Cells.Count).Column End With End If For RowNdx = StartRow To EndRow WholeLine = "" For ColNdx = StartCol To EndCol If Cells(RowNdx, ColNdx).Value = "" Then CellValue = "" Else CellValue = Cells(RowNdx, ColNdx).Value End If WholeLine = WholeLine & CellValue & Sep

Next ColNdx WholeLine = Left(WholeLine, Len(WholeLine) - Len(Sep)) Print #nFileNum, WholeLine Next RowNdx EndMacro: On Error GoTo 0 Application.ScreenUpdating = True End Sub