Extra quotes after every quotes when I copy and paste to notepad from excel - string

Question

I have the following text stored in a cell in a worksheet
<tr onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#74eb61';" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#e8e8e8';">
Now when I copy and paste it to notepad from that I get the extra quote sign after every quote so it becomes like the following string
<tr onmouseover=""this.style.backgroundColor='#74eb61';"" onmouseout=""this.style.backgroundColor='#e8e8e8';"">
You can recreate this by:
Copy this text:
<!-- CSS goes in the document HEAD or added to your external stylesheet -->
<style type="text/css">
table.hovertable {
font-family: verdana,arial,sans-serif;
font-size:11px;
color:#333333;
border-width: 1px;
border-color: #999999;
border-collapse: collapse;
}
table.hovertable th {
background-color:#009fe3;
color:#FFFFFF;
border-width: 1px;
padding: 8px;
border-style: solid;
border-color: #a9c6c9;
}
table.hovertable tr {
background-color:#e8e8e8;
}
table.hovertable td {
border-width: 1px;
padding: 8px;
border-style: solid;
border-color: #a9c6c9;
}
</style>
<!-- Table goes in the document BODY -->
<table class="hovertable">
<th colspan="4">Info Header</th>
<tr onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#74eb61';" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#e8e8e8';">
<td>Item 1A</td><td>Item 1B</td><td>Item 1C</td>
</tr>
<tr onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#74eb61';" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#e8e8e8';">
<td>Item 2A</td><td>Item 2B</td><td>Item 2C</td>
</tr>
<tr onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#74eb61';" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#e8e8e8';">
<td>Item 3A</td><td>Item 3B</td><td>Item 3C</td>
</tr>
<tr onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#74eb61';" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#e8e8e8';">
<td>Item 4A</td><td>Item 4B</td><td>Item 4C</td>
</tr>
<tr onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#74eb61';" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#e8e8e8';">
<td>Item 5A</td><td>Item 5B</td><td>Item 5C</td>
</tr>
</table>
and paste to any cell in Excel
And then Copy the cell contents and paste on notepad and you will find extra quotes

Answer 1

This is 'behavior by design'. The clipboard's involvement in the process of transferring the cell value from XL to Notepad++ mean that the text string is evaluated. There are a lot of scenarios that are tested for (I do not have a complete list) but it seems that your paste operation is being interpreted as creating a comma separated or tab separated TXT export file. The quote characters are being doubled up because your system is using the quote character as the Text Qualifier special character in an XL-to-TXT export.
Unfortunately, you do not want this transitional behavior but many others do. If you need to bypass it, copy the text string from the formula bar or in-cell while in edit mode. This is not Excel's doing or even the Office Clipboard (OCB). It is the Windows clipboard's behavior which is trying to interpret a transfer from XL to Notepad++.