Stripping quotation marks

tucsondonpepe

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Hi,

I am trying to strip the quotation marks on a page.

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I used the following in a subroutine, Range("A10") = Right(Range("A10"), Len(Range("A10")) - 1), to remove one quotation mark and received the following error message.

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.

I would appreciate your help. Thank you.

Joe
 

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If the first and last characters are always the quotation marks the following formula will working in the cell with quotation marks removed.

=MID(A7,2,LEN(A7)-2) 'Assumes A7 contains a value like "=A2",

DateFormat.xlsm
AB
7"=A2"=A2
Sheet1
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
B7B7=MID(A7,2,LEN(A7)-2)
 
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the SUBSTITUTE function could be used as well, it will replace all occurrences of the character to be changed or removed.

DateFormat.xlsm
AB
8"=A2"xxxx"yyyy"=A2xxxxyyyy
Sheet1
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
B8B8=SUBSTITUTE(A8,CHAR(34),"")
 
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Solution
If your are doing this in VBA code you can use the MID or REPLACE function as well.

Before running Macro
DateFormat.xlsm
A
1
212345
3"=A2"
Sheet1


After running Macro
DateFormat.xlsm
A
1
212345
312345
Sheet1
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
A3A3=A2


Macro (Sub) VBA Code
Sub StripQuotes()
Dim str1
Dim rng As Range

Set rng = Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A3")

str1 = Mid(rng.Value, 2, Len(rng.Value) - 2)
'or use Replace funtion below
' str1 = Replace(rng.Value, Chr(34), "")
rng.Value = str1
End Sub
 
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Thank you very much for the recommendations.

I also found this solution online,

Code

Cells.Replace What:="""", Replacement:="", LookAt:=xlPart, MatchCase:=False

Joe
 
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