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How to remove quote marks around text from cell in Excel?

Author: Siluvia Last Modified: 2024-08-28

For removing quote marks around texts from selected cells, this article provides you two methods to achieve it.

Remove quote marks around text from cell with Find and Replace function
Easily remove quote marks around text from cell with Kutools for Excel


Remove quote marks around text from cell with Find and Replace function

Supposing you have a list of date with quote marks around as below screenshot shown. You can remove these quote marks from cells with the Excel build in Find and Replace function. Please do as follows.

a screenshot of the original data in quotes

1. Select the range with quote marks you want to remove. Click Find & Select > Find under Home tab to open the Find and Replace dialog box.

a screenshot of opening the Find and Replace dialog box

Note: You can also press the Ctrl + F keys simultaneously to open this Find and Replace dialog box.

2. In the Find and Replace dialog box, click the Replace tab, enter a quote mark into the Find what box, and keep the Replace with box blank, then click the Replace All button. See screenshot:

a screenshot of configuring the Find and Replace dialog box

3. Click the OK button in the following popping up dialog box.

a screenshot showing the number of replacements

Then you can see all quote marks around texts in selected range are removed immediately.

a screenshot of the original data and the data after removing quotes


Remove quote marks around text from cell with Kutools for Excel

With the Remove Characters utility of Kutools for Excel, you can easily remove all quote marks in selected range in Excel.

Before applying Kutools for Excel, please download and install it firstly.

1. Select the range with quote marks you want to remove, and then click Kutools > Text > Remove Characters.

2. In the Remove Characters dialog box, check the Custom box, enter a quote mark into the following box, and then click the OK button. See screenshot:

a screenshot of configuring the Remove Characters dialog box to remove quotes from cells

Then the quote marks are removed from the selected range immediately.

Note: For removing single quote from cells, please just enter a single quote into the Custom box.

  If you want to have a free trial (30-day) of this utility, please click to download it, and then go to apply the operation according above steps.


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