Excel only places quotes around certain fields, how do I force excel to save a CSV file with quotes around every column?

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Seems that even now, Excel has problems saving a proper CSV file. An old ExcelForum.com post lists a number of macros that do the trick.

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This page also has the solution which comes straight from the horse's mouth:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291296/en-us

If the link degrades, the topic to search for is:

"Procedure to export a text file with both comma and quote delimiters in Excel" and/or "Q291296"

tl;dr: use their macro

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