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

It may not suit your requirements, particularly if you need to set up formatting in the Excel sheet, but have you considered writing the data out to a CSV file and saving it with an .XLS extension?

The other thing you could try would be to explicitly set format data types of your target cells in the Excel sheet to type "Text" (as through Format > Cells within Excel) before you attempt to load data. By default, the cells will be of type "General", and the driver may be adding the apostrophe to force your data to be displayed at text.