I am working a Google Base/Shopping feed for my company. For those who are not familiar with what this requires as small bit of info on it: I create an excel spreadsheet with all of the information about my products (descrip, price, colors, photos, etc etc etc).. One product per row. To upload the feed to Google I must export the file into a text (.txt) file-- tab-delimited.
I have a few issues:
1) "Plan white tee shirts 8""50"" --- it double quotes some stuff and adds quotes where I have not placed them while working the excel spreadsheet. How do I export without these extra quotes? This entry should read Plan white tee shirts 8" x 50" ... Maybe I need to get rid of the " (or inches) all together?

2) There is a column for 'additional image links' -- when you add an image to one of these products you just provide a link- well if I have multiple I can product multiple image links. Help section in my Google merchant account informs me to separate multiple links with a comma. I do- yet after saving and opening the document again cells with more than one link in it is shown as #######
I have tried expanding the cell- no luck, it is exported like this into the text file, I have checked that there is a 'space' between the comma and the next link... Not sure what to do here.



Note: I have another computer with Office 2010 on it- think these are just 2007 issues? Any help is greatly appreciated!

Anybody? Am I in the complete wrong place for an answer like this? Only curious and TIA for any help guys!!

Erm ... this sounds like spreadsheet and .csv questions, and you're in the Word forum.

From an information point of view, you could save yourself a lot of grief by simply telling visitors 'all linear measurements are in inches'

I vaguely remember that ### often means "the data is too wide to be displayed in this column", typically after a spreadsheet has helpfully decided to convert something like 3/4" into March 2004 or similar.

But you'll get better answers in the Excel forum <g>

Hey... Good point- my apologies.

Chris,

Please check the link below:

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/ImpText.aspx

I appreciate your response! Only as to help anybody else that runs across this issue (although your response would have done the same): I found a macro that would do this that may prove a bit simpler- MAY.. not 100% sure.
I actually did it all in visual basic (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ex...010014111.aspx) as adding a macro limited the amount of lines I could add for some reason:

Sub Export()
Dim r As Range, c As Range
Dim sTemp As String

Open "c:\YourFileName.txt" For Output As #1
For Each r In Selection.Rows
sTemp = ""
For Each c In r.Cells
sTemp = sTemp & c.Text & Chr(9)
Next c

'Get rid of trailing tabs
While Right(sTemp, 1) = Chr(9)
sTemp = Left(sTemp, Len(sTemp) - 1)
Wend
Print #1, sTemp
Next r
Close #1
End Sub

Copy/Paste- press F5 and it will export
Again- I appreciate everybody who helped figure this out!

You are welcome. And your code works perfectly.