How do I convert text ie apple to string "apple" in excel or VBA?

How do I convert text ie apple to string "apple" in excel or VBA?
I need the text as a string to use MATCH. I have looked everywhere but cant find a way.

for example: if you put kk in cell A1, pp in cell B1 and rr in cell C1 and then in some
other cell you put =MATCH(kk,A1:C1) it will not work you need to
put =MATCH("kk",A1:C1)

Also if you want to convert text to string it will not work to put for
example ="a1". if you manually type =MATCH("kk",A1:C1) it is ok but since
the code run in VBA I cant type this manually hence I need to convert all
text elements in a range to strings. Complicated!

Hi dav_mark

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Strange, exact same question but under a different name here.

@Norie

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