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Default Find and Replace with Formatting

Try prefixing with an apostrophe at the same as the replace or formatting
cells as text before you do the replace.

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Peter T

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I have a bunch of cells that have measurments in them formatted like this

3'-
0". I would like to change these to 3/0 but when i do a find and replace
(even after setting the format to text for these cells) it turns them into

a
date. is there a way to do a find and replace but leave the format as

text?

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