Save as CSV file (UTF-8) with double quotes - how?

Copper Contributor

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?

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Use the PowerShell option , it is the only way I found that works @winston_dowling 

This is the way
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.