How to Automatically Convert an Excel File to Text Using Visual Basic. Microsoft's ubiquitous spreadsheet application, Excel, is a useful tool for small and large businesses alike.

Reading and writing text files is an essential task in any programming language. Follow this step-by-step approach to working with text files in VB .NET using the System.IO namespace.

The Visual Basic "Button" class lets you create a control on your VB projects that perform an action such as auto-save. VB also includes file classes that help you create functions to save files.