Syntax

expression.TextFileFixedColumnWidths

expression A variable that represents a QueryTable object.

Remarks

Use this property only when your query table is based on data from a text file (with the property set to xlTextImport), and only if the value of the property is xlFixedWidth.

You must specify a valid, nonnegative column width. If you specify columns that exceed the width of the text file, those values are ignored. If the width of the text file is greater than the total width of columns you specify, the balance of the text file is imported into an additional column.

Example

This example imports a fixed-width text file into a new query table on the first worksheet in the first workbook. The first column in the text file is five characters wide and is imported as text. The second column is four characters wide and is skipped. The remainder of the text file is imported into the third column and has the General format applied to it.

Visual Basic for Applications 
Set shFirstQtr = Workbooks(1).Worksheets(1) Set qtQtrResults = shFirstQtr.QueryTables _ .Add(Connection := "TEXT;C:\My Documents\19980331.txt", _ Destination := shFirstQtr.Cells(1, 1)) With qtQtrResults .TextFileParseType = xlFixedWidth .TextFileFixedColumnWidths = Array(5, 4) .TextFileColumnDataTypes = _ Array(xlTextFormat, xlSkipColumn, xlGeneralFormat) .Refresh End With
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