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Need to format CSV to inlude commas and single-quotes

I have an excel sheet with a single Column which is filled with email addresses.

I need to somehow format the list so that each email address is comma delimited, and has a single quote around it. So basically each cell needs to have a single quote around its content, and be comma delimited.

Here's how it looks now:
John@yahoo.com
Joe@gmail.com
Jane@msn.com

Here's my end goal:
'john@yahoo.com', 'joe@gmail.com', 'jane@msn.com'

Any ideas how to achieve this?
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You will need to write an Excel macro.  The export utility will not do that for you.
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Is there a way to Import CSV files into MS SQL Server 2008...is there a wizard?

I'm sure it would have this ability.
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InfoTechEE,In your example, are those three entries in a single cell, or is each entry in its own cell?
maybe try a bulk insert http://sqlserver2000.databases.aspfaq.com/how-do-i-load-text-or-csv-file-data-into-sql-server.html or http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2008/02/06/sql-server-import-csv-file-into-sql-server-using-bulk-insert-load-comma-delimited-file-into-sql-server/


but do you want to runt his outside of sql server?

some excel vba code like this is a simple example
I specify the start row and col using irow and icol
I place results in row 1, col 5

Public Sub MergeColumns()

    Dim iRow As Integer
    Dim iCol As Integer
   
    'Specify start row/col
    iRow = 1
    iCol = 4
   
    While Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(iRow, iCol) <> ""
        If Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(1, 5) <> "" Then
            Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(1, 5) = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(1, 5) & ","
        End If
        Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(1, 5) = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(1, 5) & "'" & Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(iRow, iCol) & "'"
        iRow = iRow + 1
    Wend
   
End Sub
matthewspatrick: Each entry is in its own cell. All the email addresses are in Column A, and each email address is on its own row, in its own cell.

rockiroads: To come to think about it, can't this be done with Cancatination formula?
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