是否可以在Excel中的文本开头隐藏单引号（'）？

Question

I have an application that when I click Run Report the data will be generated and exported to excel. I posted a question regarding about a value converted to date when exporting in excel. My first problem was that I have a data in a column Requisition No. which is the value is for example like this 08-20 but when I export it on excel it will became a date like 20-Aug So I put a single quote in my code for it to identify as text and not convert to date.

If arrColumn(intColCount2) = 29 Then
    strHTML += "<td>&#145;" & dr("vRequisition") & "</td>"
End If

but now it shows like this in excel

I get the output that I want for my first problem which is not to convert the value into a date.

what I'm trying to do is to hide the single quote (') at the beginning of the text in excel so that it will show only like this

08-20

is it possible to hide the single quote (') in the beginning of the text in excel?

Answer 1

Your code seems not to create really Excel format workbooks but simply to create HTML and to export this HTML to Excel.

Using this approach you can use CSS Styling Excel cells with mso-number-format to number format the td as text format for Excel.

Example

strHTML += "<td style='mso-number-format:""\@""'>" & dr("vRequisition") & "</td>"