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Highlight (but don’t open) authors table, got o External data Excel, and make an external spreadsheet with the data
Excel export dialog box
Resulting Excel file
Right click on header A at top of first column and choose Insert from the menu
Enter the text seen below into cell A2 and copy it down (ask if you don’t know how)
Add a right parenthesis in a column on the right- hand side
Now use Excel’s Save AS and choose Other Formats
Use the “Save-as type” drop-down and choose CSV
Close Excel and Open the CSV file in Notepad
Delete the first row
Go to Edit/Replace
O’Leary!!!!!!!!!!!!! Replace single quote with two single quotes (not a double quote). Replace All.
Replace comma with single-quote comma single quote. Click Replace All.
Next replace left parenthesis single- quote comma with left parenthesis
Replace comma single-quote right parenthesis with right parenthesis