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Default Deleting the "'" character in the text formula

Hi John,

Try this: highlight the column with the formulae you would like to
change, click on Data | Text-to-columns and then click Finish on the
first panel.

Hope this helps.

Pete

Niek Otten wrote:

Hi John,

Edit|Find and replace?

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Kind regards,

Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel

"John" wrote in message ...
| Hi,
|
| I have a load of formulae currently displayed as text. This is not a case
| of converting using the 'Number' from the Category selection.
|
| At the moment i can manually resolve this one using EDIT HOME or BACKSPACING
| to the ' then deleting it and hitting the Ente key. I dont fancy doing this
| for a couple of hundred cells. Any solutions to this would be appreciated.
|
| Thanks
|
| John