How To Specify A Tab Character In VBA In Excel

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How to specify a Tab Character in VBA in Excel Fb-Button

In this article, we have created two macros to understand the formatting of tab character within VBA.

We have taken data in the range A9:A11 as raw data.

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In example 1, we have created a string in which we have consolidated data from cells within the range A9:A11, separated by tab characters (vbTab). When we display the string using a message box, we will be able to see tab spacing.

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However, when we insert string value in cell A14, tab spacing is not visible. We have used some Excel formulas to show tab characters exist between the words.

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In example 2, we have separated each character in the string value of cell A14 and we have used new line character (vbNewLine) to insert line breaks. Output of example 2 is also displayed using a message box.

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Please follow below for the code

Option Explicit Sub example1() 'Declaring variable Dim MainString As String 'Concatenating value from range A9 to A11 separated by Tab character MainString = Range("A9").Value & vbTab & Range("A10").Value & vbTab & Range("A11").Value 'Display string in message box MsgBox MainString 'Assigning value to cell A14 Range("A14").Value = MainString End Sub Sub example2() 'Declaring variables Dim i, CharLength As Integer Dim Output As String Dim InputValue As String 'Getting input value from cell A14 InputValue = Range("A14").Value CharLength = Len(InputValue) 'Looping through all the characters in the input value For i = 1 To CharLength 'Creating string in which each character in the input is separated by new line Output = Output & Asc(Mid(InputValue, i, 1)) & " " & Mid(InputValue, i, 1) & vbNewLine Next i 'Displaying output using message box MsgBox Output End Sub

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