Excel 2007 - Remove Quotes when copying

V

Vlad

If I copy some cells from Excel 2007 to notepad the values are
enclosed in quotes - is it possible to disable this 'wrapping' with
quotes?

Thanks

Andy
 
D

Dave Peterson

You could use a macro.

Saved from a previous post:

I used the PutInClipboard routine that Chip Pearson has:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/clipboard.htm

With this sub:
Option Explicit
Sub testme()

Dim MyDataObj As DataObject
Set MyDataObj = New DataObject

MyDataObj.SetText ActiveCell.Text
MyDataObj.PutInClipboard

End Sub

And then pasted (manually) into NotePad. No double quotes were inserted. But I
did see a little square where the alt-enter was.

Chip has instructions that you have to follow (including the tools|references
with "Microsoft Forms 2.0 object library") on that sheet.

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If you wanted to copy multiple cells, this may help you:

Option Explicit
Sub testme()

Dim MyDataObj As DataObject
Dim myCell As Range
Dim myRow As Range
Dim myRng As Range
Dim myRowStr As String
Dim myStr As String

Set MyDataObj = New DataObject

Set myRng = Selection.Areas(1)

myStr = ""
For Each myRow In myRng.Rows
myRowStr = ""
For Each myCell In myRow.Cells
myRowStr = myRowStr & vbTab & myCell.Text
Next myCell
myRowStr = Mid(myRowStr, Len(vbTab) + 1) 'get rid of leading vbtab
myStr = myStr & vbCrLf & myRowStr
Next myRow
myStr = Mid(myStr, Len(vbCrLf) + 1) 'get rid of leading vbcrlf (2 chars!)

MyDataObj.SetText myStr
MyDataObj.PutInClipboard

End Sub

If you're new to macros:

Debra Dalgleish has some notes how to implement macros here:
http://www.contextures.com/xlvba01.html

David McRitchie has an intro to macros:
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/getstarted.htm

Ron de Bruin's intro to macros:
http://www.rondebruin.nl/code.htm

(General, Regular and Standard modules all describe the same thing.)
 
V

Vlad

Many Thanks Dave - that looks like a possible solution.

If you wanted to integrate this even more you could associate this
macro with the CTRL+C functionality. I'm not sure how that would
impact things if you copied a chart or something more graphical though.
 

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