OLEDB, Writing Excel cell without leading apostrophe

Question

I\'m writing to Excel file using OLEDB (C#). What I need is just RAW data format.

I\'ve noticed all cells (headers and values) are prefixed by apostrophe (\')

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Answer 1

I know that when entering data into Excel, prefixing it with an apostrophe is an easy way to make it into a text field. Are you sure the data does not actually contain the apostrophe? If it's added to the data at entry time, your only option would be to catch them at import time and dealing with them in some custom code.