Inverted Comma



How to remove inverted commas from cells in Excel?

Select the cells with inverted commas you need to remove, then click Kutools Text Remove Characters. 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. Inverted comma definition, quotation mark. Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co.

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.

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:

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

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

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.

Before applying Kutools for Excel, please download and install it firstly.

1. 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.

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.

Easily remove all inverted commas from cells with Kutools for Excel

Inverted Comma

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in inverted commas

Used to indicate that something one just said is untruthful, ironic, or disingenuous. ('Inverted commas' is another term for quotation marks, chiefly used in British English.) We were 'taught,' in inverted commas, by the teaching assistant, but we did most of our learning independently.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2015 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.

in inverted commas

BRITISH, SPOKEN
COMMON If you say in inverted commas after or before a word or phrase, you are drawing attention to the word, and showing that it is not an accurate way to describe the situation you are referring to. So, in what sense do you see the students as disadvantaged, in inverted commas?I think that the assumptions of some people were that we would take democratic decisions, well, democratic in inverted commas. Compare with quote, unquote.
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2012

in inverted ˈcommas

(spokenKeyboardMarks) used to show that you think a particular word, description, etc. is not true or appropriate: The manager showed us to our ‘luxury apartment’, in inverted commas.
Inverted commas are another name for quotation marks (‘ ’) or (“ ”).
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017
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