Hi all,

I'm trying to save an excel file as a tab delimited text file. I do not
want to use quotes as a text qualifier. However, certain fields in the
file (fields with large amounts of text) are automatically being
surrounded in quotes by excel.

So let's say I have a spreadsheet with two columns, 1 row, that reads:

data | data data data data

All I have to do is open this and save it as a text file, and Excel is
automatically changing the text file to read:

data | "data data data data"

Using Excel 2003

can anyone help solve this annoying problem?


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Hi all,

I'm trying to save an excel file as a tab delimited text file. I do not
want to use quotes as a text qualifier. However, certain fields in the
file (fields with large amounts of text) are automatically being
surrounded in quotes by excel.

So let's say I have a spreadsheet with two columns, 1 row, that reads:

data | data data data data

All I have to do is open this and save it as a text file, and Excel is
automatically changing the text file to read:

data | "data data data data"

Using Excel 2003

can anyone help solve this annoying problem?

I think you may find that the fields which get surrounded with quotes are
those which contain commas.

One possible work round is to select your cells in Excel, copy, and paste
into Notepad. Save from Notepad and that will hopefully give you a
tab-delimited text file without the extra quotes.
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David Biddulph

looks like that did the trick! Thanks a ton, too bad there's no way to
get Excel to do it correctly, but this will work for us


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