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QueryTable.WebPreFormattedTextToColumns property (Excel)

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Returns or sets whether data contained within HTML <PRE> tags on the webpage is parsed into columns when you import the page into a query table. The default is True. Read/write Boolean.

Syntax

expression.WebPreFormattedTextToColumns

expression A variable that represents a QueryTable object.

Remarks

This property is used only when the QueryType property of the query table is xlWebQuery, and the query returns an HTML document.

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 WebPreFormattedTextToColumns property applies only to QueryTable objects.

Example

This example adds a new web query table to the first worksheet in the first workbook. Note that the example doesn't parse into columns any data located between the HTML <PRE> tags.

Set shFirstQtr = Workbooks(1).Worksheets(1) 
Set qtQtrResults = shFirstQtr.QueryTables _ 
 .Add(Connection := "URL;https://datasvr/98q1/19980331.htm", _ 
 Destination := shFirstQtr.Cells(1,1)) 
With qtQtrResults 
 .WebFormatting = xlNone 
 .WebPreFormattedTextToColumns = False 
 .Refresh 
End With

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