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    Ignore equal sign and proceed as text

    Hi there,

    I have a bunch of text copy into excel, and some of my text are in the form of =22+05-u2
    when excel saw these, it gave the follwing error #VALUE

    What settings or how can i make it such that the sheet ignore it and treat it as normal text?
    I have tried changing the type to text to no avail.

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    Re: Ignore equal sign and proceed as text

    Format the cell as Text and Paste Values or put a single quote in front of the text.
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    Re: Ignore equal sign and proceed as text

    Thanks for the rep.

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    Re: Ignore equal sign and proceed as text

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