What are the options for a .iqy file?

Question

I'm trying to understand the options for the .iqy file format. I'm trying to use it to feed CSV data from an external web source into Microsoft Excel but I'm not finding any canonical documentation to make sure that I'm doing it right.

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Answer 1

Microsoft has very little documentation on their .iqy (or a Excel Web Query - Internet Inquiry) file and nothing about their allowed options or format. This because the .iqy file is normally created from a VBA Web Query output. But, if you reference the VBA QueryTable documentation instead and do some translation, you'll find this (simplified here):

.iqy Options	VBA Web Query Options	Type	.iqy Values	Default Value
ConsecutiveDelimitersAsOne	WebConsecutiveDelimitersAsOne	Boolean	True/False	False
DisableDateRecognition	WebDisableDateRecognition	Boolean	True/False	False
DisableRedirections	WebDisableRedirections	Boolean	True/False	False
Formatting	WebFormatting	List	All (1), RFT (2), None (3)	RFT
PreFormattedTextToColumns	WebPreFormattedTextToColumns	Boolean	True/False	True
Selection	WebSelectionType	List	EntirePage (1), AllTables (2), SpecifiedTables (3)	AllTables
SingleBlockTextImport	WebSingleBlockTextImport	Boolean	True/False	False

Note: There are other .iqy options like SharePointApplication but aren't prefixed with "Web" and therefore weren't added to this list. You can find the rest of them under Properties.

An example Web .iqy file is formatted in this style:

WEB
1
https://www.example.com/file.csv

Selection=1
Formatting=None
PreFormattedTextToColumns=True
ConsecutiveDelimitersAsOne=True
SingleBlockTextImport=False
DisableDateRecognition=False
DisableRedirections=False