How do you force excel to quote all columns of a CSV file?
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Excel only places quotes around certain fields, how do I force excel to save a CSV file with quotes around every column?
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This page also has the solution which comes straight from the horse's mouth: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291296/en-us If the link degrades, the topic to search for is: "Procedure to export a text file with both comma and quote delimiters in Excel" and/or "Q291296" tl;dr: use their macro
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