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How to export/save each row as text file in Excel?

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Normally, we can save a worksheet as separate text file easily, but how to export and save a single row as text files in Excel? And how to export and save each row as individual text file? This article will introduce Kutools for Excel’s utilities to solve them easily.

Export/save one row as text file with Kutools for Excel

Export/save each row as text files with Kutools for Excel


Export/save one row as text file with Kutools for Excel

Kutools for Excel’s Export Range to File utility can save a range as text file, csv file, or html files, etc. Therefore, we can apply this utility to export an entire row as text file in Excel easily.

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1. Select the entire row that you will save as text file, and click the Kutools Plus > Import & Export > Export Range to File. See screenshot below:

click Export Range to File feature of kutools

2. In the opening Export Range to File dialog box, check the Unicode Text option, and then click the Browse button Browse button beside the Save directory box.

specify the options in the dialog box

3. In the popping up Select a directory for exporting file dialog box, select the folder that you will save the text file to, and click the OK button.

select a folder to save the text file

4. Click the Ok button when it returns to the Export Range to File dialog box.

Notes:

1. If you would like to open the text file after saving successfully, you can check the Open the file after export option in the Export Range to File dialog box.

2. If you need to save multiple rows as individual text files, you have to repeat these steps many times to save each row as individual text file. For easily saving each row as individual text file, please go ahead to view the following method.


Export/save each row as text file with Kutools for Excel

Actually, if you have Kutools for Excel installed, we can split each row into a new sheet by its Split Data utility, and then apply its Split Workbook utility to save these sheets as individual text files in Excel.

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1. Select the range that you will save each row as text file, and click the Kutools Plus > Split Data.

click Split Data feature of kutools

2. In the Opening Split Data into Multiple Worksheets dialog box, check the Fixed rows option, and type 1 into the below box, specify a rule in the Rules drop-down menu, and click the Ok button.

set the options in the dialog box 

Now each row is split into a new worksheet of a new workbook with the title row. If you don’t need the title row in the new sheets, please uncheck the My data has headers option.

3. In the new sheet, click the Kutools Plus > Workbook > Split Workbook.

click Split Workbook feature of kutools

4. In the opening Split Workbook dialog box, check the Save as type option, select Unicode Text (*.txt) from the below drop-down list, and click the Split button.

select Unicode Text format in the dialog box

Notes:

(1) If you don’t need to save hidden worksheets as text files, please check the Skip hidden worksheets option.

(2) If you don’t need to save blank worksheets as text files, please check the Skip blank worksheets option.

5. Specify a folder that you will save the text files into in the Select Folder dialog box, and click the Select Folder button.

Specify a folder to save the text files

If there are many worksheets you will save as text files, it will take some time to split.

Then you will see each row is split and saved as text file into the specified folder.


Demo: export/save each row as text file in Excel

 

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