Answer by Kevin K for Why does Excel add leading apostrophes to some of my...
I don’t have anything to add just sharing similar experienceI usually paste similar &&& formula from my Excel to notepad without the quote appearing. Today I paste it and quotes appear in...
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I cannot edit the existing answer, nor comment, so I'll add this in response to the second comment as it could help you, and others.I looked at those methods in the other answer's link and they all...
View ArticleAnswer by Jeorje for Why does Excel add leading apostrophes to some of my...
The "why" is simple: those apostrophes are present in EVERY cell containing or being treated as text. Excel does not normally display them, either in the formula editor or in the grid's display of the...
View ArticleAnswer by harrymc for Why does Excel add leading apostrophes to some of my...
Leading apostrophes force excel to treat the cell’s contents as atext value.Even if the cell contains a number or date, Excel will treat it astext.The apostrophe can only be seen in the Formula bar...
View ArticleWhy does Excel add leading apostrophes to some of my text cells?
I have a worksheet containing, among other things, a table object. All data in the worksheet was added by me manually, including the data and column headers in the table.I just noticed that in 13 of...
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