sprintf? (Excel VBA v6.3)

[quentin]

I'm trying to print formatted text like you would do with printf. VBA lacks a printf and also the sprintf function. Does anybody have a routine which does the same function?

I want to output multiple "stringlets" on the same line at specific column positions (vbTab doesn't guarantee a specific position).

I have been using print #1, "blah"; Tab(40); "Blah blah";

Unfortunately, the file descriptor "1" is local to the workbook containing the code so I can't use print routines in different workbooks to print to the same file.

[LegareColeman]

Look at the Print # statement. Each workbook can open the same file for append and print to it. However, they can't all have it open at the same time.

[quentin]

Yes, thanks.
That's exactly how I decided to solve it. I had already written the code with Print #1, ..... so it was not a big change to open for append instead of open for output.