Find cells and bold their text in many csv files

JE,

You do understand that CSV files are not formatted, right?  If you save the files as CSV after the modification,
they will lose the formatting.  I think you need to take a shot at more fully describing what you need to do.

Patrick

Patrick,
Yes, okay. Great point. If a script could take the csv files and bold them and then save as an excel spreadsheet (.xls) would be fantastic. Hope thats clearer.

Thanks,
JE

I believe you mean import the CSV file into Excel, bold them as needed, and then save the Excel file.
Patrick(ab)

Patrick,
Yes that is what I mean. Sorry about my poor explanation. I am glad that someones besides me knows what I want.

Thanks,
JE

Patrick Matthews is the man for you on this one. I leave for China in a couple of hours so I'm going to give this one a miss.

Hi,

I have adapted code from http://www.xtremevbtalk.com/showthread.php?t=300278 to conditional format cells Bold if the value is less thean 0.7

Pls run the code, when the 'Open" window appears, navigate to your directory and click on one of the csv files. the code will then loop through all the csvs, apply the conditional formatting, then save the files as .xls workbooks

Regards

Dave

Sub ConvertCSV2XLS()
'code adapted from http://www.xtremevbtalk.com/showthread.php?t=300278
    Dim fn As String
    Dim i As Long
    Dim CSVFiles() As String
    Dim myDir As String
 
    fn = Application.GetOpenFilename(filefilter:="CSV Files (*.csv),*.csv")
    fn = Dir("*.csv")
    myDir = CurDir
    ReDim CSVFiles(0)
 
    If fn <> "False" Then
        CSVFiles(0) = fn
        Do
            fn = Dir
            If fn <> "" Then
                i = i + 1
                ReDim Preserve CSVFiles(i)
                CSVFiles(i) = fn
            Else
                Exit Do
            End If
        Loop While fn <> ""
    End If
 
    Application.ScreenUpdating = False
 
    For i = 0 To UBound(CSVFiles)
        Workbooks.Open Filename:=myDir & "\" & CSVFiles(i)
        Application.DisplayAlerts = False
        Cells.FormatConditions.Add Type:=xlCellValue, Operator:=xlLess, Formula1:="0.7"
        Cells.FormatConditions(1).Font.Bold = True
     ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs Filename:=myDir & "\" & Replace(CSVFiles(i), ".csv", ".xls"), FileFormat:=xlNormal
    ActiveWindow.Close
Next
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
 
End Sub

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Dave,
I get the following error message when I run the .vbs script you provided:

Line: 3
Char: 12
Error: Expected end of statement
Code: 800A401

Please advise,
Thank you kindly,
JE

JE

This is Excel VBA - not a Visual Basic script

Cheers

Dave

Whoops,
Thanks.

Okay, now, it is only doing half of the files in the directory and those are done correctly.  What other info might you need to troubleshoot?
Thanks,
JE

JE -  it's only doing half the csv files?

Cheers

Dave

Dave,
Yes,
No matter which csv file I open and insert the macro in, the macro starts with "c12*1.k.s.p.csv"( * =r or p)
and ends with "c14*1.k.s.p.csv" and leaves c5-7 untouched. See attached files for names of files in the directories I tried this on. After it 'finishes' it clears the macro from excel vba editor.

Please advise,
JE
JE1-output.txt
JE2-output.txt

The code worked on my testing, but I have gone back to my own preferrred way of looping through a file set

Pls change
myDir = "c:\excelfiles"

to suit

Cheers

Dave

Sub UseMyOwn()
    myDir = "c:\excelfiles"
    myfile = Dir(myDir & "\*.csv")
    Application.ScreenUpdating = False
 
    Do While myfile <> ""
        Workbooks.Open Filename:=myfile
        Application.DisplayAlerts = False
        Cells.FormatConditions.Add Type:=xlCellValue, Operator:=xlLess, Formula1:="0.7"
        Cells.FormatConditions(1).Font.Bold = True
        ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs Filename:=myDir & "\" & Replace(myfile, ".csv", ".xls"), FileFormat:=xlNormal
        ActiveWindow.Close
        myfile = Dir
    Loop
    Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

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I tried using this new code with a blank workbook and inserting it into one of the csv files to be operated on.  Both ways I get the attached error and highlighted code when I press debug.

Please advise,
Thanks,
JE
error-je-bold-xls.jpg
error-je-bold2-debug-xls.jpg

brettdj:
This one kinda of work, instead of half of the files it now completed the task on 2/3 of them. After it 'finishes' it clears the macro from excel vba editor.

Please advise,
Thanks for your continuing efforts,
JE

JE,

>After it 'finishes' it clears the macro from excel vba editor.
Are you running the code from one of the CSV files you are operating on? It should be run from an unaffected file.

Can you pls run this code, and then copy and paste the results from the Immediate window in the VBE back into an EE post.

Cheers

Dave

>It should be run from an unaffected file.

That was my problem

Thanks,
It works splendidly.

Cheers,
JE

No probs, thx for the grade :)

Cheers

Dave