Remove the ‘ Apostrophe from Excel Cells

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Many applications that export to Excel, export the data with the apostrophe character at the front of the string. One way of removing this character is to use the clean() function:

If in cell A1 you have: ‘output
Then in cell B1 type =clean(A1). The result will be: output

Joseph Harris
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