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Default Edit many cells at once to add a charater to existing data?

Helper column ="'"&A1 and copy down. The copy this column, & Edit/ Paste
Special/ Values over the original data and delete the helper column.
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David Biddulph

"ABTurner" wrote in message
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I have a column of data and I need to add an apostrophe to the beginning of
all the cells without changing the remaining content. How can I do this?
I
know how to do this for individual cells, but I would like to do it to all
cells at once.