don't insert quotes in excel save as tab-delim txt
 

I wish to export from an excel spreadsheet file to a tab-delimited text file
- WITH NO QUOTES around any of the entries. They are not necessary, because
tabs - not commas are the delimiters. I was quite disappointed that from
changing to the older version of excel, which had a configurable export
function, where I could specify "no quotes please" to excel 2000, I cannot
specify this.

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Hi Naomi,
If you can use a macro solution you can modify the export within.
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/imptext.htm
The TAB character is CHR(9)

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"Naomi" wrote in message ...
I wish to export from an excel spreadsheet file to a tab-delimited text file
- WITH NO QUOTES around any of the entries. They are not necessary, because
tabs - not commas are the delimiters. I was quite disappointed that from
changing to the older version of excel, which had a configurable export
function, where I could specify "no quotes please" to excel 2000, I cannot
specify this.

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