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uncreative

iNSERT LEADING APOSTROPHE
 
Hello,

Does anyone know of a method to insert leading apostrophes for a range of
cells? (The concatenate function doesn't appear to work for this.)

Bob Phillips

iNSERT LEADING APOSTROPHE
 
="'"&A1

should work

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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"uncreative" wrote in message
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Hello,

Does anyone know of a method to insert leading apostrophes for a range of
cells? (The concatenate function doesn't appear to work for this.)




Gary''s Student

iNSERT LEADING APOSTROPHE
 
You can make concatenate() work for you as follows:

if A1 contains data then =CHAR(39) & A1 will insert the leading single quote.
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Gary's Student


"uncreative" wrote:

Hello,

Does anyone know of a method to insert leading apostrophes for a range of
cells? (The concatenate function doesn't appear to work for this.)


uncreative

iNSERT LEADING APOSTROPHE
 
Great! Thanks, guys; both options worked for me.

"Gary''s Student" wrote:

You can make concatenate() work for you as follows:

if A1 contains data then =CHAR(39) & A1 will insert the leading single quote.
--
Gary's Student


"uncreative" wrote:

Hello,

Does anyone know of a method to insert leading apostrophes for a range of
cells? (The concatenate function doesn't appear to work for this.)



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