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QueryTable.WebPreFormattedTextToColumns Property (Excel)

Returns or sets whether data contained within HTML

 tags in the Web page 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 a HTML document.
If you import data 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 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 
 tags.

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

Concepts

QueryTable Object
Other resources

QueryTable Object Members