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    How to get rid of single quote in Microsoft Excel sheet

    I have many non contiguous cells (anywhere within the range D2 and G200)where I have put only a single quote within the cell and now I want to make all such cell blank. The cells which doesn't have single quote have valid data which I don't want to remove/delete. I chose replace feature in excel 2000 and within Find field indicated a single quote and he Replace field I kept blank. Strangely I get the message "MS excel cant find matching data to replace...." Why is it happening. One more doubt. Sometimes when Excel cant find the matching data then the message which gets displayed comes in the standard message box (similar to the VBA msgbox command) but sometimes I get the message in that yellow msgbox background with the Excels assistant tagging along. What determines the difference the kind of msgbox getting displayed.

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    Re: How to get rid of single quote in Microsoft Excel sheet

    A single quote in excel is also an indicator that the cell will contain text only. It is used when you want to enter some mathematical expression a text. That is why the 'find' cannot find it! Try pressing ctrl+a, right click > paste special and formula. Repeat and paste special formats. That should do the trick.

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    Re: How to get rid of single quote in Microsoft Excel sheet

    If your cells with a single quote is in a column, you could try data|text to columns choose delimited (but uncheck all the delimiters) and finish. If your cells are spread out all over, you could use a macro. Select your range and run this:
    Code:
    Option Explicit
    Sub testme()
    
    Dim myCell As Range
    Dim myRng As Range
    
    Set myRng = Nothing
    On Error Resume Next
    Set myRng = Intersect(Selection, _
    Selection.Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeConstants))
    On Error GoTo 0
    
    If myRng Is Nothing Then
    MsgBox "no constants!"
    Exit Sub
    End If
    
    For Each myCell In myRng.Cells
    With myCell
    .Value = .Value
    End With
    Next myCell
    
    End Sub

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