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    looping, Open text file, copy text, close text file

    Need some assistance. I have an existing spreadsheet with a column of strings (actually VIN numbers). These numbers correllate to a bunch of text files, that can exist in one of three folders (\Username\Desktop\1, 2, or 3) on my desktop. What I need the macro to do is:

    1) get the filename from A2 (A1 is a heading row)
    2) Find the appropriate text file in one of the three folders
    3) Put the folder name into I2
    4) Scan the text file for some strings, and copy some data that follows those strings into J2:O2 (I can handle programming this)
    5) Close the text file
    6) repeat above for the remainder of filenames (about 1800 files)

    Any assistance you can offer would be great
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    Re: looping, Open text file, copy text, close text file

    hi jwilds1
    this is untested but try this in a test workbook
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    Re: looping, Open text file, copy text, close text file

    Through a little trial and error I got the following to work:

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    It's unelegant (is that a word?), but it works. Thanks!!!

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    Re: looping, Open text file, copy text, close text file

    jwilds1
    do you have a sample work book that you can post
    It just makes it easier to work with and we can streamline the code and make it eligant

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