Saving a Excel File into .txt format without quotes

Question

I have a excel sheet which has data in column A.There are many special characters in the cells.When I save the sheet in .txt format I get inverted commas at the start of eac

Answer 1

I just spent the better part of an afternoon on this

There are two common ways of writing to a file, the first being a direct file access "write" statement. This adds the quotes.

The second is the "ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs" or "ActiveWorksheet.SaveAs" which both have the really bad side effect of changing the filename of the active workbook.

The solution here is a hybrid of a few solutions I found online. It basically does this: 1) Copy selected cells to a new worksheet 2) Iterate through each cell one at a time and "print" it to the open file 3) Delete the temporary worksheet.

The function works on the selected cells and takes in a string for a filename or prompts for a filename.

Function SaveFile(myFolder As String) As String
tempSheetName = "fileWrite_temp"
SaveFile = "False"

Dim FilePath As String
Dim CellData As String
Dim LastCol As Long
Dim LastRow As Long

Set myRange = Selection
'myRange.Select
Selection.Copy

'Ask user for folder to save text file to.
If myFolder = "prompt" Then
    myFolder = Application.GetSaveAsFilename(fileFilter:="XML Files (*.xml), *.xml, All Files (*), *")
End If
If myFolder = "False" Then
    End
End If

Open myFolder For Output As #2

'This temporarily adds a sheet named "Test."
Sheets.Add.Name = tempSheetName
Sheets(tempSheetName).Select
Selection.PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteValues, Operation:=xlNone, SkipBlanks _
    :=False, Transpose:=False

LastCol = ActiveSheet.UsedRange.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeLastCell).Column
LastRow = ActiveSheet.UsedRange.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeLastCell).Row

For i = 1 To LastRow
    For j = 1 To LastCol
        CellData = CellData + Trim(ActiveCell(i, j).Value) + "   "
    Next j

    Print #2, CellData; " "
    CellData = ""

Next i

Close #2

'Remove temporary sheet.
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets.Delete
Application.DisplayAlerts = True
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
'Indicate save action.
MsgBox "Text File Saved to: " & vbNewLine & myFolder
SaveFile = myFolder

End Function