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    Large TXT file into Excel

    I have a large txt file that exceeds the excel row limits. How can import this file and spread it across several sheets (tabs)? I've tried to use visual basic code (i'm not a coder) from the interwebs....I just cut and pasted into a macro but that didn't work. I kept getting an error about no path or file.

    Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

    Here is dropbox link with the file (50mb)

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/b0749i701x...2.TXT.txt?dl=0

    Thanks for any help,
    William

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    Re: Large TXT file into Excel

    In versions of XL before 2007, there was a limit of 64k rows in each sheet, so if you had text files with more rows than that you had to do what you are asking for now (although you can have up to 1 million rows in each sheet). Chip Pearson has a routine on his site for importing data across multiple sheets in those earlier Excel versions, and is available here:

    www.cpearson.com/Excel/ImportBigFiles.aspx

    Perhaps you can amend the macro to work with the later versions.

    Hope this helps.

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    Re: Large TXT file into Excel

    Pete, thank you for the response. After reviewing your link and doing some more searching for macro options I came across a neat little free program that works great. The program is gsplits https://www.gdgsoft.com/gsplit/

    Thanks again,

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    Re: Large TXT file into Excel

    my 3 cents
    You can use PowerQuery without any third party software and divide this txt file as you wish

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    Re: Large TXT file into Excel

    Thank you!

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