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Save as CSV file (UTF-8) with double quotes - how?
Hi I often need to save data as a CSV file (UTF-8) where all cells are surrounded by double quotes. I cannot find any way to do that in Excel - can it be true? Any idea how to do that?
Hi Peter,
The idea is here http://lenashore.com/2012/04/how-to-add-quotes-to-your-cells-in-excel-automatically/.
In brief, convert your file to CSV, select your range and apply custom \"@\" format, save again.
This was the only solution that worked with my file. One problem though: if you have a number entered in the cell, even if the cell is formatted as [text] and special format is applied, the Double Quotation Character ["] will not be added.
To go around this problem I had to add Single Quotation Character ['] in front of the number that made excel to treat it as text and after exporting into csv format deleted all single quotation signs using Notepad.
If anyone has a better idea, please let me know.
To go around this problem I had to add Single Quotation Character ['] in front of the number that made excel to treat it as text and after exporting into csv format deleted all single quotation signs using Notepad.
If anyone has a better idea, please let me know.