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The quotes are there to help distinguish the field data.<br />
I'm not sure if there is a way to turn it off...but why not just do a find/replace in notepad to remove all the double quotes?
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The quotes are there to help distinguish the field data.
I'm not sure if there is a way to turn it off...but why not just do a find/replace in notepad to remove all the double quotes?

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Another thing you can do, is select all the data you want.... copy/paste into notepad and it will be Tab delimited by default, without quotes...
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Another thing you can do, is select all the data you want.... copy/paste into notepad and it will be Tab delimited by default, without quotes...

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In the following thread, the people resolved the issue with simple code:<br />
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Sub exportdata()<br />
&nbsp;Cells.Select<br />
&nbsp;Selection.Copy<br />
&nbsp;Shell &quot;notepad.exe&quot;, vbNormalFocus<br />
&nbsp;SendKeys &quot;^V&quot;<br />
&nbsp;SendKeys &quot;%fa&quot;<br />
&nbsp;End Sub <br />
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<a href="http://www.ozgrid.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18333&page=1" rel="ugc">http://www.ozgrid.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18333&page=1</a><br />
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In the following thread, the people resolved the issue with simple code:

Sub exportdata()
 Cells.Select
 Selection.Copy
 Shell "notepad.exe", vbNormalFocus
 SendKeys "^V"
 SendKeys "%fa"
 End Sub

http://www.ozgrid.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18333&page=1 [http://www.ozgrid.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18333&page=1]



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I have an excel file that I am saving as a txt (tab delinmited) file for import into another system. &nbsp;Everytime I save to txt, it is adding double quotes in front of every line in the txt file. &nbsp;I can see them when I open in notepad. &nbsp;How can I change the xlsx file it so that it doesn't do that? &nbsp;Help, please!<br />
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Sample of the Excel data attached<br />
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Test.xlsx

I have an excel file that I am saving as a txt (tab delinmited) file for import into another system.  Everytime I save to txt, it is adding double quotes in front of every line in the txt file.  I can see them when I open in notepad.  How can I change the xlsx file it so that it doesn't do that?  Help, please!

Sample of the Excel data attached

Dumping Excel file to txt file adding double quotes

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