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 each line. I tried both manually and by macro saving the file in .txt format.Why is it so? How to remove them? I am not able to remove the quotes. Attaching a pic

Answer 1

This code does what you want.

LOGIC

1. Save the File as a TAB delimited File in the user temp directory
2. Read the text file in 1 go
3. Replace "" with blanks and write to the new file at the same time.

CODE

Private Declare Function GetTempPath Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetTempPathA" _
(ByVal nBufferLength As Long, ByVal lpBuffer As String) As Long

Private Const MAX_PATH As Long = 260

'~~> Change this where and how you want to save the file
Const FlName = "C:\Users\Siddharth Rout\Desktop\MyWorkbook.txt"

Sub Sample()
    Dim tmpFile As String
    Dim MyData As String, strData() As String
    Dim entireline As String
    Dim filesize As Integer
    
    '~~> Create a Temp File
    tmpFile = TempPath & Format(Now, "ddmmyyyyhhmmss") & ".txt"
    
    ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs Filename:=tmpFile _
    , FileFormat:=xlText, CreateBackup:=False
    
    '~~> Read the entire file in 1 Go!
    Open tmpFile For Binary As #1
    MyData = Space$(LOF(1))
    Get #1, , MyData
    Close #1
    strData() = Split(MyData, vbCrLf)
    
    '~~> Get a free file handle
    filesize = FreeFile()
  
    '~~> Open your file
    Open FlName For Output As #filesize
    
    For i = LBound(strData) To UBound(strData)
        entireline = Replace(strData(i), """", "")
        '~~> Export Text
        Print #filesize, entireline
    Next i
    
    Close #filesize
    
    MsgBox "Done"
End Sub

Function TempPath() As String
    TempPath = String$(MAX_PATH, Chr$(0))
    GetTempPath MAX_PATH, TempPath
    TempPath = Replace(TempPath, Chr$(0), "")
End Function

SNAPSHOTS

Actual Workbook

After Saving