TDM Importer Excel start index automation

I am trying to create a macro within excel to import and format data from a .tdm file.
The files to be imported sometimes exceed the 1M row limit in Excel, so when this happens, I want to generate two workbooks. One of these workbooks should be generated from a start index of 1 and the other should be generated from a start index of 1048576. Right now I use the silent mode to give a start index of 1 and then rerun the importer and enter 1048576 manually for the second workbook.
My question is: is there any way to set the start index through a macro?
I have considered using the sendkey command to generate the "tab tab 1048576 enter" keystrokes required, but excel cannot interrupt the call object command in order to do this.
Many thanks,
Alex
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Alex
I have done quite complex processing with DIAdem. Your request is not a big deal to do in DIAdem.
For max flexibilty, you can take out references to the channel. Like shown below in oChan01. This will allow you to handle a channel like an array. The limitations on this approach is speed, The built in functions are faster than this approach, and should be used as much as possible. The chnfind command is one examle that is much faster to find a specific value in a channel.
OptionExplicit'Forces the explicit declaration of all the variables in a script.
dim oChan01,i,oGrp,dVal
set oGrp = data.Root.ChannelGroups("EXAMPLE")
set oChan01 = oGrp.Channels("Time")
for i = 1to oChan01.Size
dVal = oChan01(2)
next
Paul

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