Question

I have an excel sheet with >2000 records with two columns.
I want to add

{"<first_col_data>",

and

"<sec_col_data>"},

to all the rows, and save to a text file. I mean adding the curly brace, double-quotes and comma.
e.g.
data.xls =>

      A    |   B 
----------------------------------
title_add  | ADDING SOMETHING
title_list | LISTING SOMETHING

output text file data.txt =>

{"title_add","ADDING SOMETHING"},
{"title_list","LISTING SOMETHING"},

How do I do that? I have no idea of macros or functions.

Thanks for your help….

Answer 1

On a second Sheet simply use this formulas, then save the sheet:

 Sheet2!A1=CONCATENATE("{""",Sheet1!A1,""",""",Sheet1!B1,"""}")

this should result into:

 {"title_add","ADDING SOMETHING"}

and this is my original formula, which created the result above:

 =VERKETTEN("{""";A1;""",""";B1;"""}")

My other solution (as a one time quickie) would be using Notepad++ to find/replace/insert after saving the xls as as csv or txt. Or AWK, if this is a regular thing.

You could of course do this with a macro, maybe someone else is so nice to provide one for you, but as you don’t have any idea of macros, I wouldn’t even recommend it, until you have some idea 😉