Enter and run this small macro:

Sub tic_killer()
Set rr = ActiveSheet.UsedRange.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeConst ants, xlTextValues)
For Each r In rr
If r.PrefixCharacter = "'" Then
r.Value = r.Value
End If
Next
End Sub

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Gary''s Student - gsnu200789


"dhstein" wrote:

I needed to create a text string which is a formula. I did it and now have
400 entries like the following:
=DATE(2003,10,04)
Each of these entries is a unique date which was converted from the original
Lotus file. But each entry is a text string - not a formula. So the actual
value in the cell is just as shown above - it displays as =DATE(YYYY,MM,DD).
There is an apostrophe at the beginning. I can manually edit each entry and
delete the apostrophe, but that's a pain in the you know what. I can't do a
replace all - replacing apostrophe with nothing - that doesn't work. I need
these entries to be formulas so that they display as the actual Date - and in
addition I want to keep the formula - in other words I don't want to do a
paste special values. Any suggestions?