Opening .dat (tab delimited file) in Excel, save as .xls

Question

I am trying to open a .dat file in Excel, which is tab delimited, and then have it save out as a .xls file.

So far, I can read in the file and save it as the .xls fi

Answer 1

This sould work:

using Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel;
using Microsoft.Office;
using Microsoft.Office.Core;

        Excel.Application xlApp;
        Excel.Workbook xlWorkBook;
        Excel.Worksheet xlWorkSheet;
        object misValue = System.Reflection.Missing.Value;
        xlApp = new Excel.Application();
        xlApp.Workbooks.OpenText(@"c:\data.txt", Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlTextParsingType.xlDelimited);
        xlApp.Visible = true;