Leave out quotes when copying from cell

Question

Problem:
When copying a cell from Excel outside of the program, double-quotes are added automatically.

Details:
I\'m using

Answer 1

You can do this in an Excel macro via VBA, sending the results to a file:

Sub SimpleVBAWriteToFileWithoutQuotes()
    Open "c:\TEMP\Excel\out.txt" For Output As #1
    Print #1, Application.ActiveSheet.Cells(2, 3)
    Close #1
End Sub

And if you are wanting to get filenames and content into multiple files, here is a short snippet that avoids the double quotes around the output.

Sub DumpCellDataToTextFilesWithoutDoubleQuotes()
    ' this will work for filename and content in two different columns such as:
    ' filename column       data column
    ' 101                   this is some data
    ' 102                   this is more data

    Dim rngData As Range
    Dim strData As String
    Dim strTempFile As String
    Dim strFilename As String
    Dim i As Long
    Dim intFilenameColumn As Integer
    Dim intDataColumn As Integer
    Dim intStartingRow As Integer

    intFilenameColumn = 1     ' the column number containing the filenames
    intDataColumn = 3         ' the column number containing the data
    intStartingRow = 2        ' the row number to start gathering data


    For i = intStartingRow To Range("A1", Range("A1").End(xlDown)).Rows.Count

        ' copy the data cell's value
        Set rngData = Application.ActiveSheet.Cells(i, intDataColumn)

        ' get the base filename
        strFilename = Application.ActiveSheet.Cells(i, intFilenameColumn)

        ' assemble full filename and path
        strTempFile = "w:\TEMP\Excel\" & strFilename & ".txt"

        ' write to temp file
        Open strTempFile For Output As #1
        Print #1, rngData
        Close #1

    Next i

    ' goto home cell
    Application.ActiveSheet.Cells(1, 1).Select
    Range("A1").ClearOutline
End Sub