I understand that this is not really VBA, but maybe you could help any way. I Have downloaded data from my manufacturing system in a tab-delimited format. I import into excel and some of the data in some of the formulas have " around my text. What formula can I write to detect whether there is a " at the begining or end of my column and if there is, delete the mark. Bear in mind that the data is different lengths.

Thanks

If you would use vba you could run this one. This checks column A [Range("A65...]:

Sub RemQuot()
Dim i, o As Integer

Range("A65536").End(xlUp).Select
i = ActiveCell.Row

For o = 1 To i
  If Right(Cells(o, 1), 1) = """" Then Cells(o, 1) = Left(Cells(o, 1), Len(Cells(o, 1)) - 1)
  If Left(Cells(o, 1), 1) = """" Then Cells(o, 1) = Right(Cells(o, 1), Len(Cells(o, 1)) - 1)
Next o

End Sub


Formulas, which isn't my speciality, you could try these 2:

=IF(RIGHT(A1)="""";REPLACE(A1;LEN(A1);1;""))
=IF(LEFT(A1)="""";REPLACE(A1;1;1;""))

But you,ll have to find out yourself how to make them run concatenated, if possible.

This formula also works. It will "remove" quotes from text in cell A1, if it has them.

=IF(LEFT(A1)="""",MID(A1,2,LEN(A1)-2),A1)

You can try the Replace feature. Highlight the field containing the " sign and click ctrl+H. The first box will say "Find what:" and the second box will say "Replace with:". Under "Find what:", type ". If there are spaces between the " sign and the next word, you can add the spaces as well. Under "Replace with:", you don't put anything. Leave it empty. The Replace feature will eliminate the " sign and if there are spaces, the spaces will be eliminated as well.

Goodluck

Any idea on how to make this work on multi line strings.

E.g.
=CONCATENATE("Hello World",CHAR(10))
=IF(LEFT(A1)="""",MID(A1,2,LEN(A1)-2),A1)

The second does not sense the quote but when we copy A1 or A2 and paste it to a file then it contains a quote.