Do you really need the apostrophe?
a) select he cells and use Format | Cells | Text
OR
b) select the cells and click the left align tool
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"Cindy" wrote in message
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I am trying to make all of the cells in a particular column (they are
filled
with numbers) alphanumeric and left justified by putting a single quote in
front of each cell. I don't want to type the quote on each cell. How can
I
do this without typing in each cell?