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Use "CHAR(34)" within formulas where you need to output quotation marks. For example, to add quotes around the text in cell A1, you would type "=CHAR(34)&A1&CHAR(34)" in an empty cell.

Select the cells with inverted commas you need to remove, then click Kutools > Text > Remove Characters. 2. In the Remove Characters dialog box, check the Custom box, enter the inverted comma into the textbox, and then click the OK button. Then all inverted commas in selected cells are removed at once.

Select the data range that you want to remove the leading apostrophe, and press Ctrl + C to copy them. 3. And you can see the leading apostrophe has been removed from the numbers.

Select the range with quote marks you want to remove. In the Find and Replace dialog box, click the Replace tab, enter a quote mark into the Find what box, and keep the Replace with box blank, then click the Replace All button.

By default, Excel adds quotes to any multi-line text. So the simple solution, provided by the above process, is to ensure that your cells with long text are not automatically wrapping onto multiple lines. It might be worthwhile to note that before I did this, the cells looked normal and did NOT appear to be wrapped.

To find a " in a text string, you can use SEARCH("""",A1,1). If you wanted you could use a formula like =SEARCH("""",A1,1)>0 in Conditional Formatting and copy to the rest of your range to fill all the cells containing quotation marks a color.

Microsoft Excel uses double quotation marks to signify text within formulas. When it sees these marks, it uses the text and discards the quotes. Typing quotation marks directly into a cell is not an issue because Excel automatically recognizes that you are entering text and therefore keeps the quotation marks.