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How to remove inverted commas from cells in Excel?

Author Siluvia Last modified

Sometimes, when you import data from other applications to Excel, there are inverted commas displaying before all numbers in your spreadsheet as below screenshot shown. You can’t remove this inverted comma by the Find and Replace feature. How would you do to remove it? This article will introduce two methods for you.

sample data

Remove inverted commas from cells with the Multiply feature
Easily remove all inverted commas from cells with Kutools for Excel

Remove inverted commas from cells with the Multiply feature

You can remove inverted commas from selected cells with the Multiply feature of Excel. Please do as follows.

1. Enter a number 1 into a blank cell, then copy this cell with pressing Ctrl + C keys simultaneously.

2. Select the cells which contain the inverted commas you need to remove, and then click Home > Paste > Paste Special. See screenshot:

click Home > Paste > Paste Special

3. In the Pates Special dialog box, select the Multiply option in the Operation section, and then click the OK button. See screenshot:

select the Multiply option in the dialog box

Then you can see all inverted commas are removed from selected cells immediately. See screenshot:

all inverted commas are removed

Remove inverted commas from cells with Kutools for Excel

The Remove Characters utility of Kutools for Excel will help you quickly remove all inverted commas from selected cells at once.

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1. Select the cells with inverted commas you need to remove, then click Kutools > Text > Remove Characters. 

click Remove Characters feature of kutools

2. In the Remove Characters dialog box, check the Custom box, enter the inverted comma into the textbox, and then click the OK button.

enter the inverted comma into the textbox

Then all inverted commas in selected cells are removed at once.

  If you want to have a free trial (30-day) of this utility, please click to download it, and then go to apply the operation according above steps.

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