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Default Formatting cells to put the " mark for inches?

Is there a way to do that? I have tried to make it Special, Number and
General but it doesn't accept that.
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Default Formatting cells to put the " mark for inches?

Try entering the following formula in the "Custom" category:

#\"

The backslash tells Excel to treat the following character as a literal.

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Is there a way to do that? I have tried to make it Special, Number and
General but it doesn't accept that.

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