Question

I have a large CSV file and I want to programmatically open it in excel with a particular line highlighted (I know the line number). What is the easiest way to this?

I think my options are:

1. Auto convert the csv file to an xlsx file. How can I do this from a script?
2. Give Excel some arguments when it opens up. No idea what command line arguments Microsoft products take.
3. Somehow interact with Excel after it opens up the CSV file and tell it to highlight a particular. Again not sure how.

I prefer Java/Python/Shell or anything that would work across Mac/Windows assuming the system has Excel installed. So, my best bet is probably #1 which brings me back to the question how can I convert a CSV file to a xlsx file.

Answer 1

this works simple save it in an empty workbook.

Private Sub Workbook_Open()
    Workbooks.Open ("test.csv")
    Range("8:8").Select
End Sub

also if you save that in your normal.dot (the default template document when opening excel) it will run on any document it opens. so what you could do is:

save this to your normal.dot

Private Sub Workbook_Open()
    Range("8:8").Select
End Sub

then change the default application for opening .csv files to excel. then whenever you double-click on .csv file it will be opened with excel and excel will run the Workbook_Open() sub and viola!