[MS_AccessPros] Re: CSV export not working

 

Sarah - since these are going to be csv files, export them as text, not Excel files. A csv (comma-delimited value) file is not really a spreadsheet you don't have to use Excel formatting.

DoCmd.TransferText, acExportDelim,...

You can control how the records are delimited and how strings are qualified, etc. It's much more practical. You can even manually export data as a csv and set up and save a specification. Then you can later use that specification to format your data exactly as you want.

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---In MS_Access_Professionals@yahoogroups.com, <sarahk@schemesoftware.com> wrote :

I am using Access 2003 and use the following code to export to an Excel file. This code used to work fine, but no longer works.'DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet acExport' gives me : run-time error '3274' external table is not in the expected format.

MyDocsPath = Environ$("USERPROFILE") & "\" & "My Documents\"

DoCmd.OutputTo acOutputQuery, "MLTC1b_Detail", acFormatXLS, MyDocsPath & "MLTC Summary" & Format([Forms]![mltc1]![pid from], "yyyymmdd") & ".csv", False

DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet acExport, 8, "mltc1b_Day_summary", MyDocsPath & "MLTC Summary" & Format([Forms]![mltc1]![pid from], "yyyymmdd") & ".csv", False

DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet acExport, 8, "mltc1b_Registrant_summary", MyDocsPath & "MLTC Summary" & Format([Forms]![mltc1]![pid from], "yyyymmdd") & ".csv", True

Maybe it is because I installed Excel 2016,  Excel 2003 is also installed in this computer. I tried changing 'acExport, 8,' to 'acExport, 9,'  and 'acExport, 10,'. I get the same error. 

Please help

Thanks 

Sarah

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