_QueryTable.TextFileColumnDataTypes Property

Definition

Namespace:

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel

Assembly:

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.dll

Returns or sets an ordered array of constants that specify the data types applied to the corresponding columns in the text file that you’re importing into a query table. The default constant for each column is xlGeneral. Read/write Object.

public:
 property System::Object ^ TextFileColumnDataTypes { System::Object ^ get(); void set(System::Object ^ value); };

public object TextFileColumnDataTypes { get; set; }

Public Property TextFileColumnDataTypes As Object

Property Value

Object

Remarks

You can use the XlColumnDataType constants listed in the following table to specify the column data types used or the actions taken during the data import.

xlGeneralFormat	General
xlTextFormat	Text
xlSkipColumn	Skip column
xlDMYFormat	Day-Month-Year date format
xlDYMFormat	Day-Year-Month date format
xlEMDFormat	EMD date
xlMDYFormat	Month-Day-Year date format
xlMYDFormat	Month-Year-Day date format
xlYDMFormat	Year-Day-Month date format
xlYMDFormat	Year-Month-Day date format

Use this property only when your query table is based on data from a text file (with the QueryType property set to xlTextImport).

If you specify more elements in the array than there are columns, those values are ignored.

You can use xlEMDFormat only if Taiwanese language support is installed and selected. The xlEMDFormat constant specifies that Taiwanese era dates are being used.