C Glenn Wrote:
I'm working with a spreadsheet produced by a scraper. For reasons that
I can only guess and am powerless to change, it places an apostrophe
before some of the numbers (IOW, one might imagine that it believes
them
to be numeric strings).

I was hoping to find a way to remove them en masse, through search and
replace perhaps. But the search half of the process doesn't know how
to
look for an apostrophe at the beginning of a cell. It seems that
those
don't count.

Any ideas on how this could be automated?

Hi C Glenn

In an adjacent column try =TRIM(cellreference) eg =TRIM(A1), this will
remove the '

Then copy and paste special values


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Paul Sheppard


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