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QueryTable.TextFileTrailingMinusNumbers property (Excel)

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True for Microsoft Excel to treat numbers imported as text that begin with a - (minus) symbol as a negative symbol. False for Excel to treat numbers imported as text that begin with a - symbol as text. Read/write Boolean.

Syntax

expression.TextFileTrailingMinusNumbers

expression A variable that represents a QueryTable object.

Remarks

If you import data by using the user interface, data from a web query or a text query is imported as a QueryTable object, while all other external data is imported as a ListObject object.

If you import data by using the object model, data from a web query or a text query must be imported as a QueryTable, while all other external data can be imported as either a ListObject or a QueryTable.

The TextFileTrailingMinusNumbers property applies only to QueryTable objects.

Example

In this example, Microsoft Excel determines the setting for cell A1 for treating numbers imported as text that begin with a - symbol. This example assumes that a QueryTable object exists on the active worksheet.

Sub CheckQueryTableSetting() 
 
 ' Determine setting for TextFileTrailingMinusNumbers 
 If Range("A1").QueryTable.TextFileTrailingMinusNumbers = True Then 
 MsgBox "Numbers imported as text that begin with a '-' symbol " & _ 
 "will be treated as a negative symbol." 
 Else 
 MsgBox "Numbers imported as text that begin with a '-' symbol " & _ 
 "will not be treated as a negative symbol." 
 End If 
 
End Sub

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