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Sandy Mann
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Why do my fields start with an apostrophe?
So will copying a blank cell and then Paste Special Add into the original
cell
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"Dave F" wrote in message
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Another thing you can do is use the TRIM() function to remove
apostrophes...then copy, paste special values...
Dave
On Dec 21, 3:20 pm, jmerwamer
wrote:
Hi Chuck,
I changed the formatting and it didn't go away. For my spreadsheets, it is
usually a green tab that indicates if a cell is formatted for text when it
contains numbers.
But in this case the cell will look normal like this with nothing around
it:
Example
but in the function bar it will contain:
'Example
Any other thoughts?
Thanks,
Jamie
"CLR" wrote:
It's just an indication that the cell is formatted as TEXT. Doesn't hurt
anything, doesn't print...........if you re-format the cell for a NUMBER
format, it should go away.
Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3
"jmerwamer" wrote:
Some lines of my spreadsheet will have an apostrophe before the entry.
It's
not visible except in the function bar. Find and replace doesn't see
it. I
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