{"id":9852,"date":"2022-06-03T09:47:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T09:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/?p=9852"},"modified":"2024-03-26T12:56:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T12:56:34","slug":"escape-special-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/examples\/escape-special-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Escape Special Characters in Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Some characters that we may want to include in a cell in Excel are special characters in that they are used by the application itself. The characters have a special functionality within Excel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Examples of the special characters are the full colon (:) that is used for formatting time values and double quotes (“) that are used to mark the beginning of the end of text-only arguments of functions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To include the special characters in a formula or some other input value in Excel, we need an escape technique that tells Excel that we want to include these characters in the value or formula we are inputting and that we do not want them to be interpreted in Excel’s default manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When we escape a special character, we are telling Excel to treat the character as literal text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this tutorial we are going to look at the following 6 methods that we can use to escape special characters in Excel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the Excel default settings, double quotes are used to mark the start and end of a text string.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If we want to include double quotes inside a formula value, we can use additional double quotes in the formula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We will use the following example to show how this is done:<\/p>\n\n\n\n