Use double quotes in Excel formulas

When you add double quotes in a formula in Excel, Excel will recognize the characters enclosed in the quotes as a part of the actual text. This tutorial explains how to use double quotes in Excel formula.

How to use double quotes in formulas in Excel?

Generic formula

=""""&cell&""""

Or

=CHAR(34)&cell&CHAR(34)

There are two ways for you to use the double quotes in formulas. They are:

• 1. Without a function: Enclose text in double quotes directly.
• 2. With a function: Display the double quotes by using the CHAR(34) function.

As the below example shown, D7 contains the below formula:

="A useful "&B5&" for "&""""&C5&""""

And returns the result: A useful Tool for "Excel".

Notes:

• 1. In this case, the text in C5 is wrapped inside double quotes (""). You can wrap the text in any cell with the below formula.
• =""""&cell&""""
• """": The 1st and the 4th quotes tell Excel this is text, and the 2nd quote tells Excel to escape the next 3rd double quote and takes it as a literal text. Here the result of """"&C5&"""" is "Excel".
• 2. Additionally, you can use the CHAR function to insert double quotes in formula as well. See below formula:
• ="A useful "&B5&" for "&CHAR(34)&C5&CHAR(34)
• The CHAR(34) function returns a double quote (") and displays as literal text in cell.
• 

---

The Best Office Productivity Tools

Kutools for Excel - Helps You To Stand Out From Crowd

	Popular Features: Find/Highlight/Identify Duplicates  |  Delete Blank Rows  |  Combine Columns or Cells without Losing Data  |  Round without Formula ...
	Super VLookup: Multiple Criteria  |  Multiple Value  |  Across Multi-Sheets  |  Fuzzy Lookup...
	Adv. Drop-down List: Easy Drop Down List  |  Dependent Drop Down List  |  Multi-select Drop Down List...
	Column Manager: Add a Specific Number of Columns  |  Move Columns  |  Toggle Visibility Status of Hidden Columns  |  Compare Columns to Select Same & Different Cells ...
	Featured Features: Grid Focus  |  Design View  |  Big Formula Bar  |  Workbook & Sheet Manager | Resource Library (Auto Text)  |  Date Picker  |  Combine Worksheets  |  Encrypt/Decrypt Cells  |  Send Emails by List  |  Super Filter  |  Special Filter (filter bold/italic/strikethrough...) ...
	Top 15 Toolsets:  12 Text Tools (Add Text, Remove Characters ...)  |  50+ Chart Types (Gantt Chart ...)  |  40+ Practical Formulas (Calculate age based on birthday ...)  |  19 Insertion Tools (Insert QR Code, Insert Picture from Path ...)  |  12 Conversion Tools (Numbers to Words, Currency Conversion ...)  |  7 Merge & Split Tools (Advanced Combine Rows, Split Cells ...)  |  ... and more

Kutools for Excel Boasts Over 300 Features, Ensuring That What You Need is Just A Click Away...

Supports Office/Excel 2007-2021 and 365   |   Available in 44 Languages   |   Easy to Uninstall Completely

Full-Featured 30-Day Free Trial  |  60-Day Unconditional Money-Back GuaranteeRead MoreFree Download

---

Office Tab - Enable Tabbed Reading and Editing in Microsoft Office (include Excel)

• One second to switch between dozens of open documents!
• Reduce hundreds of mouse clicks for you every day, say goodbye to mouse hand.
• Increases your productivity by 50% when viewing and editing multiple documents.
• Brings Efficient Tabs to Office (include Excel), Just Like Chrome, Edge and Firefox.

Full-Featured 30-Day Free Trial  |  60-Day Unconditional Money-Back GuaranteeRead More Free Download