Excel: Save or Export All Sheets to Separate CSV or Text Files (2 easy ways)

Working with Excel workbooks containing multiple worksheets is common in data analysis and business reporting. Often, you'll need to export each sheet as an individual CSV (Comma-Separated Values) or text file for data sharing, integration with other systems, or archival purposes. While Excel doesn't provide a built-in "export all sheets" feature, there are several efficient methods to accomplish this task.

Save or Export all sheets to CSV or Text files with VBA code
Save or Export all / specific sheets to CSV or Text files with Kutools for Excel

Save or Export all sheets to CSV or Text files with VBA code

With the below VBA codes, you can save all worksheets in a workbook to separated CSV or text files. Please do as follows.

Export or convert all sheets to separate CSV files

1. Press Alt + F11 keys simultaneously to open the Microsoft Visual Basic Application window.

2. In the Microsoft Visual Basic Application window, click Insert > Module. Then copy and paste the following code into the Module window.

Sub ExportSheetsToCSV()
	Dim xWs As Worksheet
	Dim xcsvFile As String
	For Each xWs In Application.ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets
		xWs.Copy
		xcsvFile = CurDir & "\" & xWs.Name & ".csv"
		Application.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs Filename: = xcsvFile, _
		FileFormat: = xlCSV, CreateBackup: = False
		Application.ActiveWorkbook.Saved = True
		Application.ActiveWorkbook.Close
	Next
End Sub

3. Press the F5 key to run the code. You will see all exported CSV files are located on the Documents folder. Each worksheet is saved as a separate .csv file with the same name as the sheet. See screenshot:

Export or convert all sheets to separate Text files

The following code can help you to export or convert all sheets in workbook to separated Text files.

Sub ExportSheetsToText()
	Dim xWs As Worksheet
	Dim xTextFile As String
	For Each xWs In Application.ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets
		xWs.Copy
		xTextFile = CurDir & "\" & xWs.Name & ".txt"
		Application.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs Filename: = xTextFile, FileFormat: = xlText
		Application.ActiveWorkbook.Saved = True
		Application.ActiveWorkbook.Close
	Next
End Sub

The exported Text files are also located on the Documents folder. See screenshot:

Save or Export all / specific sheets to CSV or Text files with Kutools for Excel

Kutools for Excel offers a powerful and user-friendly feature to quickly export all or selected worksheets to individual CSV or text files with just a few clicks.

1. Click Kutools Plus > Workbook > Split Workbook. See screenshot:

2. In the Split Workbook dialog box:

• 1). If you want to convert all sheets to CSV or text files, just keep all sheet names checked in the Worksheet name box; If you just want to convert multiple sheets, keep checking them and going to uncheck other sheets you don’t want to convert.
• 2). In the Options section, check the Save as type box and then select Unicode Text(*.txt) or CSV (Macintosh)(*.csv) from the drop-down list.
• 3). Click the Split button.

3. In the Browse For Folder dialog box, specify a folder to save the exported files, and then click the OK button.

Now all sheets or specified sheets are converted to separated CSV or text files, and locate on the folder as you specified above.

Demo: Save, export or convert multiple/all sheets to CSV or text files with Kutools for Excel