I am getting frustrated. This was so simple in LOTUS123, but I can't get it to work in EXCEL (2000). I admit I do not have a lot of experience with EXCEL macros and VBA.

Here's what I'm trying to do.

I am using Google Sketchup and I have a data extract app that produces several CSV files (as many as 16). From those CSV files I will setup an RDB to produce various reorts about the 3D model.

The CSV files are named by concatenating the Sketchup filename and the type of CSV file, ie Sketchup-model_components.csv or Sketchup-model_layers.csv. The filename changes, but the 16 CSV file types stay constant. In this manner I know exactly the file names.

So I need a macro to import each CSV file directly into a spreadsheet and do some basic reformatting, each file, 1 by 1. I want to make a single macro to do all 16, and read rangenamed worksheet cells to control placement and housekeeping.

It amazes me that EXCEL will not import a CSV file directly into a spreadsheet, and has to open a 2nd window to do it. That was not a problem in Lotus123.

The problem I am facing is EXCEL macros do not easily read the spreadsheet for control. I have modified a macro to read the filename from a cell using Range("rangename") but I cannot get the switch windows command to read a similar rangename.

CSV files open in separate windows and are named with the CSV filename. I then copy the data over to the appropriate sheet in the main spreadsheet.
I need to go back to that exact CSV window to close it.

Can't do it. I cannot seem to make the command "windows("windowname").activate" accept a cell ref to select the CSV window.
I was able to get the "Workbooks.Open Filename:=Range("CSV1filename")" to work, but not the windows command.

Any Ideas??

Now there is a 2nd way to get the data in using a .TXT file.
But I have 2 problems with that.
1st, the data extractor is .CSV only and changing 16 .CSV extensions to .TXT every run is a non-starter.
2nd, importing a TXT file opens the dialog box every time.