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  1. 03-29-2012, 06:28 PM #1
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    Repeat macro for every file in the folder.

    Hi experts.

    I have a bunch of tab delimited files in different folders which have the wrong format of date in Column B. So I made this macro to change the date from dd/mm/yy into dd/mm/yyyy.

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    Is there a chance that I can run this macro automatically through all the files in a special folder?

    Thanks heaps

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    Re: Repeat macro for every file in the folder.

    Something like:

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    You'll need to be sure that the workbook that contains this macro is NOT in the folder you're running your search on.....or it'll get saved and closed as well.
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    Re: Repeat macro for every file in the folder.

    Hey, Swoop99! Thanks heaps!

    I changed .xls to .txt because my files are tab delimited files, correct? And I changed the address of the folder. But somehow it stops at "With Application.FileSearch"

    What is wrong??

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    Re: Repeat macro for every file in the folder.

    The .Filesearch method was taken out of Excel after Excel 2003. The DIR() method is the one most commonly used now.

    Excel cannot change "format" of a text file, it would have to be opened in Excel and during the "open" you would set the parameters for that column B. Turn on the macro recorder and let it record you opening one of those text files, fixing the column format as you import. If you still need to format column B, do that, then save the file back as a text file.

    Post all the code that results from that, then we'll take a look.

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    Re: Repeat macro for every file in the folder.

    Ok. Thats what I did, but somehow it does not record when I am opening files in excel... How can I do that?

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    Thanks heaps!!!
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    Re: Repeat macro for every file in the folder.

    By the way, I have a mac os x 10.6.8 and Excel 2011
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