Remove The Apostrophe

Nov 6, 2008

An apostrophe has appeared at the beginning of the words and/or numbers in the cells. I have tried using the "Replace" feature to remove these apostrophes and it won't work. I need to remove the apostrophes so I can upload our inventory, as the SKU must be pulled exactly.

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I can't remove the apostrophe mark from the cells. There are cells appearing to be blank but they all contain a single apostroph (like this ' ) if I click on them. Whenever I tried to replace them excel said cannot find a match...

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On exporting information from another database to excel the fields which are text in nature, these are always exported as with an apostrophe at the beginning of text into the excel cell. I can do nothing about this as the export to excel is a defined routine which i have no control over.

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Is there an alternative to manually editing every single cell?

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I searched through some pages of old threads but could not find specifically one solution for performing the subject task on text strings in cells.

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I would like to figure out some VBA so that I could build this into and automate this via a macro I'm working on.

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I have to match up two columns of data from different sources.

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Col B
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http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...4/hey1217.mspx

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