TransferText Method [Access 2003 VBA Language Reference]

The TransferText method carries out the TransferText action in Visual Basic.

expression.TransferText(TransferType, SpecificationName, TableName, FileName, HasFieldNames, HTMLTableName, CodePage)

expression Required. An expression that returns one of the objects in the Applies To list.

AcTextTransferType

AcTextTransferType can be one of these AcTextTransferType constants.

acExportDelim

acExportFixed

acExportHTML

acExportMerge

acImportDelimdefault

acImportFixed

acImportHTML

acLinkDelim

acLinkFixed

acLinkHTML If you leave this argument blank, the default constant (acImportDelim) is assumed. Notes Only acImportDelim, acImportFixed, acExportDelim, acExportFixed, or acExportMerge transfer types are supported in a Microsoft Access project (.adp).

SpecificationName  Optional Variant. A string expression that's the name of an import or export specification you've created and saved in the current database. For a fixed-width text file, you must either specify an argument or use a schema.ini file, which must be stored in the same folder as the imported, linked, or exported text file. To create a schema file, you can use the text import/export wizard to create the file. For delimited text files and Microsoft Word mail merge data files, you can leave this argument blank to select the default import/export specifications.

TableName  Optional Variant. A string expression that's the name of the Microsoft Access table you want to import text data to, export text data from, or link text data to, or the Microsoft Access query whose results you want to export to a text file.

FileName  Optional Variant. A string expression that's the full name, including the path, of the text file you want to import from, export to, or link to.

HasFieldNames  Optional Variant. Use True (–1) to use the first row of the text file as field names when importing, exporting, or linking. Use False (0) to treat the first row of the text file as normal data. If you leave this argument blank, the default (False) is assumed. This argument is ignored for Microsoft Word mail merge data files, which must always contain the field names in the first row.

HTMLTableName  Optional Variant. A string expression that's the name of the table or list in the HTML file that you want to import or link. This argument is ignored unless the transfertype argument is set to acImportHTML or acLinkHTML. If you leave this argument blank, the first table or list in the HTML file is imported or linked. The name of the table or list in the HTML file is determined by the text specified by the <CAPTION> tag, if there's a <CAPTION> tag. If there's no <CAPTION> tag, the name is determined by the text specified by the <TITLE> tag. If more than one table or list has the same name, Microsoft Access distinguishes them by adding a number to the end of each table or list name; for example, Employees1 and Employees2.

CodePage  Optional Variant. A Long value indicating the character set of the code page.

Remarks

For more information on how the action and its arguments work, see the action topic.

You can leave an optional argument blank in the middle of the syntax, but you must include the argument's comma. If you leave a trailing argument blank, don't use a comma following the last argument you specify.

Note  You can also use ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) to create a link by using ActiveConnection property for the Recordset object.

Example

The following example exports the data from the Microsoft Access table External Report to the delimited text file April.doc by using the specification Standard Output:

DoCmd.TransferText acExportDelim, "Standard Output", _
    "External Report", "C:\Txtfiles\April.doc"

Applies to | DoCmd Object