There are a lot of questions here to create a macro to save a worksheet as a CSV file. All the answers use the SaveAs, like this one from SuperUser. They basically say to create a VBA function like this:
Sub SaveAsCSV()
ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs FileFormat:=clCSV, CreateBackup:=False
End Sub
This is a great answer, but I want to do an export instead of Save As. When the SaveAs is executed it causes me two annoyances:
Is it possible to just export the current worksheet as a file, but to continue working in my original file?
Almost what I wanted @Ralph, but here is the best answer, because it solves some annoyances in your code:
To solve these problems, and meet all my requirements, I've adapted the code from here. I've cleaned it a little to make it more readable.
Option Explicit
Sub ExportAsCSV()
Dim MyFileName As String
Dim CurrentWB As Workbook, TempWB As Workbook
Set CurrentWB = ActiveWorkbook
ActiveWorkbook.ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Copy
Set TempWB = Application.Workbooks.Add(1)
With TempWB.Sheets(1).Range("A1")
.PasteSpecial xlPasteValues
.PasteSpecial xlPasteFormats
End With
Dim Change below to "- 4" to become compatible with .xls files
MyFileName = CurrentWB.Path & "\" & Left(CurrentWB.Name, Len(CurrentWB.Name) - 5) & ".csv"
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
TempWB.SaveAs Filename:=MyFileName, FileFormat:=xlCSV, CreateBackup:=False, Local:=True
TempWB.Close SaveChanges:=False
Application.DisplayAlerts = True
End Sub
Note some characteristics of the code above:
- 5
to - 4
when setting MyFileName in the code above.Edit: put Local:=True
to save with my locale CSV delimiter.