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I have AAA in cell A1 and BBB in cell B1 and I want to use the
concatenate function to output the below in cell C1 but I having
trouble printing double quotes ".


AAA"BBB"


Could someone please tell me the escape charater to do this?


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Hi!

Try this:

=A1&""""&B1&""""

That's 4 double quotes on each side if it's had to distinguish.

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I have AAA in cell A1 and BBB in cell B1 and I want to use the
concatenate function to output the below in cell C1 but I having
trouble printing double quotes ".


AAA"BBB"


Could someone please tell me the escape charater to do this?


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=A1 & """" & B1 & """"


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On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 01:02:42 -0600, SteveFox
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I have AAA in cell A1 and BBB in cell B1 and I want to use the
concatenate function to output the below in cell C1 but I having
trouble printing double quotes ".


AAA"BBB"


Could someone please tell me the escape charater to do this?

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And when you get really frustrated...

=A1&CHAR(34)&B1&CHAR(34)



SteveFox wrote:

I have AAA in cell A1 and BBB in cell B1 and I want to use the
concatenate function to output the below in cell C1 but I having
trouble printing double quotes ".

AAA"BBB"

Could someone please tell me the escape charater to do this?

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And when you get really frustrated...

That never happens, does it?

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And when you get really frustrated...

=A1&CHAR(34)&B1&CHAR(34)



SteveFox wrote:

I have AAA in cell A1 and BBB in cell B1 and I want to use the
concatenate function to output the below in cell C1 but I having
trouble printing double quotes ".

AAA"BBB"

Could someone please tell me the escape charater to do this?

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Doh!


Biff wrote:

And when you get really frustrated...


That never happens, does it?

Biff

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And when you get really frustrated...

=A1&CHAR(34)&B1&CHAR(34)



SteveFox wrote:

I have AAA in cell A1 and BBB in cell B1 and I want to use the
concatenate function to output the below in cell C1 but I having
trouble printing double quotes ".

AAA"BBB"

Could someone please tell me the escape charater to do this?

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