is this inefficient? are there any settings that i can just use?

On Feb 7, 6:22 pm, Gary''s Student
wrote:
Enter and run this small macro:

Sub tickout()
Dim r As Range
For Each r In Selection
r.Value = r.Value
Next
End Sub
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Gary''s Student
gsnu200704

"joeycalisay" wrote:
i have noticed that when data being pasted to an excel worksheet have
single quotes on all cells, it is being retained by excel. i just
want excel to treat all data as text. anyway to force excel to render
each cells without the single quotes?