Vba To Make Its Triumphant Return To Excel 2011 For Mac

Among my myriad headaches in switching back to the Mac as my primary machine, here is another doozy. So, I have this cool social media news research job I do in the mornings for a client. It involves collecting a lot of buzz from various corners of the web, putting them into an Excel file, and having to spit out a report in the form of a text file. The formatting has to be a certain way so I put together a VBA script (macro) to do this. I grab soundbites from from all over the world, so needless to say the text file I output needs to be in UTF-8 format.

• Vba To Make Its Triumphant Return To Excel 2011 For Mac

Incredibly, this doesn't come naturally to Excel. In VBA on Windows Excel, there was the ADODB.Stream class from which we can instantiate a file object which allows us to set the encoding using the Charset property, as I do in the example VBA snippet below. Set fs = CreateObject('ADODB.Stream') fs.Type = 2 fs.Charset = 'utf-8' fs.Open ' Loop thru your cells fs.writetext myCell & Chr(10) fs.SaveToFile 'OutputSheet.txt', 2 Anywhoo, after moving to the Mac I realized to my dismay that ADODB.Stream is not available. Which makes sense, as it is an Active X. I spent weeks Googling around for a VBA solution to this problem which, for the hell of it, I'll restate: The ability to output multilingual text from worksheet cells in UTF-8 format to a text file, in Excel on the Mac. But to no avail.

Am I really the only person in the world struggling with this? Or do I just suck as a Googler? Could it be the martinis?

To make a long story short, I took the bold step of ditching VBA and adopted AppleScript as my language of choice on MS Office for the Mac. When in Rome. And all that. I have attached an, and a to illustrate. To test it out you will need to open the Excel file, open the AppleScript file with the AppleScript Editor, and hit Run from the menu (or Cmd-R). Here is the entire AppleScript. Rohan Moore said.

Vba To Make Its Triumphant Return To Excel 2011 For Mac

You're not alone battling with encoding problems with Excel VBA on the Mac, since its otherwise welcome renaissance under Office 2011. In my case, I'm receiving a CSV file encoded with character set 949 (Korean), and I'm trying to import it into a worksheet that uses the data for other functions. Whilst I can use the text import wizard to set the origin of the text, via VBA you can only choose between the character sets Macintosh, Windows or MS-DOS. I'll investigate an AppleScript solution also! Rohan Moore said. This is the second time I've discovered—and commented upon—this script. This time, the script's precisely what I'm looking for!

In my particular case, I've built an Excel VBA application that organises and builds a set of product data for me to upload to Lightspeed POS and BigCommerce. The app generates a UTF-8 text file for the actual upload. For this case, I have the entire script pasted into a single cell of a specially added worksheet, and create a named range for that cell.

I then add a VBA procedure to enable me to output the file as a UTF-8 text file from within Excel, without having to open and run the AppleScript independently. The VBA procedure contains the following line: MacScript Range('NamedRange').