Tom:
I need to worry about them because, even though they are hard to detect,
they are also very fattening. Like candy.

We recently received several workbooks with tick (apostrophy) infestations.
Not only were strings ticked, but many thousands of "empty" cells as well.
The workbooks are 10's of Mbytes big and slow to function. I need to remedy
this situation.
--
Gary's Student


"Tom Ogilvy" wrote:

You shouldn't have to worry about them. You already established you can't
detect them with anything but a special property designed for that.

--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Gary's Student" wrote in message
...
Thanks Jim

Function tickiller2(r As Range) As Boolean
tickiller2 = True
If r.PrefixCharacter = "" Then
tickiller2 = False
End If
End Function

will help me find and remove useless ticks.
--
Gary's Student


"Jim Cone" wrote:

GS,

Use the PrefixCharacter property.

Jim Cone
San Francisco, USA

"Gary's Student" wrote in
message
...
I need a function that returns TRUE if its argument (a string) has a
leading
apostrophy, otherwise FALSE.
So if A1 contains a then APOS(A1) should return FALSE.
if A1 contains 'a then APOS(A1) should return TRUE.
The difficulty I am having is that the LEN function ignores the
apostrophy
and the LEFT function does the same.
Thanks in advance
--
Gary's Student