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rtf extraction to excel

I have an rtf doc and would like to extract the information into an excel file arranged in an orderly fashion according to the titles in the rtf doc. I've attached a sample doc at ee-stuff as its an rtf doc and can't be uploaded here. I have however attached a sample of how the data should be captured in excel - I did this manually to show what data should go where. SampleConversion.ods

Many thanks

Jamie

Arno Koster

Writing a VBA subroutine to open a rtf file, process its contents and save it to an excel sheet in itself isn't that difficult. The majority of the work will be in the processing of the rtf contents into the names/addresses etc, this off course depends largely on the rtf structure.

To get you started, you can use these code fragments :

To open an arbitrary file and process its contents line by line (change the debug.print line to process the text).
[If the rtf files are generated from ms word, a lot of garbage is added]

Open "d:\temp\test.rtf" For Input As #1
While Not EOF(1)
    Line Input #1, buffer
    Debug.Print buffer
Wend
Close #1

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to place text in a worksheet cell

worksheets("Sheet2").Range("B6")="something"
worksheets("Sheet2").cells(7,3)= "Else"

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fraser77

ASKER

HI,

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm afraid I'm not that advanced to know how to do this. Can you provide a solution in its completed format? I wouldnt have a clue how to start doing a vb script or where to put it.

Thanks,

Jamie

Arno Koster

Sure.
Would you be able to post a zipped sample rtf file, that would get me a starting point for the actual processing.

fraser77

ASKER

Yes the sample RTF is attached at ee-stuff.com. You just have to paste in the url of this question to find out where it is (sorry if you already know this).

Thanks a lot,

Jamie

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