Convert pipe-delimited files to .xls

Question

I\'m trying to convert pipe-delimited files to xls (Excel) with batch file and vbscript. Unfortunately, my \"output.xls\" file is still showing the pipe delimiter in the table a

Answer 1

Pipe doesn't equal Comma, Excel natively knows what to do with a CSV, but not with Pipe.

All is not lost, record your actions opening the file manually, once open highlight column A and click Data / Text To Columns, choose delimited and in the "other" box put a pipe then click next, choose the column formats (great to format numbers as text if you need to like Postcodes and phone numbers) then click finish.

Now stop the recorder and look at the code it generated. Port this over to your Excel object in your script.