The single quote tells Excel that what follows is text. For example if you
enter: 123, that is the number 123 and will be right justified. If you
enter '123. That is text amd will be left justified. However, you can still
use the text '123 in computations.

Tyro
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"Stache02" wrote in message
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what does a single quoatation mark appear in text cells