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Default "formula is too long" AND test for whether double-quotes are next-to text or number??

I've got an Excel spreadsheet that's got thousands of products that I
want to select from to bulk-import to my store.

The problem(s) I have is that the data is real sloppy. Lot of typos.
Double-quotes which prevent sorting. Double-quotes which mess up the
bulk-import.

I'm getting "formula too long" on MANY-MANY of the description cells.
I can't spell-check. I can't bulk-replace the dang double-quotes.

I cannot figure out how to get past that "formula too long" error
unless I output to a text file and then bring it back into Excel when
I'm done.

I'd like to get rid of the double-quotes. I know part of the problem
is that I'm outputting to a TAB file to do the bulk-import to my store
-- that's putting double-double-quotes into the text. I cannot use the
comma-delimited file because there are commas in the text and that gets
messed up even worse than the TAB file.

So...my questions:
Is there a way to do the following:
(1) If double-quotes are next to text -- change to single-quote??
(2) If double-quotes are next to numbers (0-9) -- change to measurement
( in.)??
(3) How can I get past the "formula is too long" error so I can
spell-check this crap??

Thanks.

Barb

 
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