Question

Inside Excel, I have a list of article names in column A, and a disclaimer inside column B. Now for each article in column A, I would like to create a text file, were A is the title of the file and B, the disclaimer, is the contents of the file.

Is this possible?

The idea is that I have several hundred of these, and I would like to make this easier on myself.

If Excel is not ideal for this, can anyone suggest an alternative? (possibly Notepad++ has a feature that can help?)

Answer 1

Sub Export_Files()
    Dim sExportFolder, sFN
    Dim rArticleName As Range
    Dim rDisclaimer As Range
    Dim oSh As Worksheet
    Dim oFS As Object
    Dim oTxt As Object

    'sExportFolder = path to the folder you want to export to
    'oSh = The sheet where your data is stored
    sExportFolder = "C:\Disclaimers"
    Set oSh = Sheet1

    Set oFS = CreateObject("Scripting.Filesystemobject")

    For Each rArticleName In oSh.UsedRange.Columns("A").Cells
        Set rDisclaimer = rArticleName.Offset(, 1)

        'Add .txt to the article name as a file name
        sFN = rArticleName.Value & ".txt"
        Set oTxt = oFS.OpenTextFile(sExportFolder & "\" & sFN, 2, True)
        oTxt.Write rDisclaimer.Value
        oTxt.Close
    Next
End Sub