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Asked: May 15, 20262026-05-15T03:34:24+00:00 2026-05-15T03:34:24+00:00

In OOCalc I want to use the CONCATENATE function to add quotes to each

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In OOCalc I want to use the CONCATENATE function to add quotes to each string in column A.

So in cell B1 I want to do:

=CONCATENATE("\"",A1,"\"")

OOCalc does not like this, or without the escaping backslash.

Does anyone know how to do this, or what an alternative method might be?

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    2026-05-15T03:34:25+00:00Added an answer on May 15, 2026 at 3:34 am

    This works for me:

    =CONCATENATE("""",A1,"""")
    

    Repeating the quotes escapes them (as it does in Visual Basic, I believe), so """" reads as: ‘one quote to start a string, one escaped quote (“”), then one quote to finish the string’.

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