VB Script help - .xls -> .csv

I am doing this testy little project that will go smooth as silk as soon as I solve this initial little problem. I need to change a bunch of excel spreadsheet (.xls) files to character-separated value text (.csv) files and I want to be lazy and not do them one-by-one (there's about 20 of them.

I was a told by a friend that VB Script can do this, but I don't know how to do it. Can somebody help? Basically, I want to open the Excel file, do a "Save As..." to .csv, then close the file. That's it. Seems simple enough, but these things never turn out that way.

Thanks much.

what do you mean when you say that things "never turn out that way"

What I meant was that it's the things that look simple that usually wind up giving me fits because I don't know how to do it, or it's there just not obvious, or any one of a number of things.

I'd probably just open Excel 20 times and use Save As

If you only have to do it this once, it's probably easier to just open it 20 times and save as *.csv.

If not, record the process of converting the file in a macro for your personal workbook, and add a button to your toolbar with that macro assigned to it.