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Asked: 2026-06-16T20:39:42+00:00

I’m exporting a spreadsheet from Google Docs as CSV, and there are apostrophe’s (‘)

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I’m exporting a spreadsheet from Google Docs as CSV, and there are apostrophe’s (‘) prepended to each date and time value. This is really annoying as OpenOffice doesn’t seem to be able to find/replace these in the spreadsheet editor.

I could solve the problem by opening the CSV file as text and replacing the chars that way, but it seems like there has to be a way to prevent the issue in the first place. Anyone know of a way to fix this? (Removing them during the OO file import would also be an acceptable solution.)

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  1. Editorial Team

    It turns out the the CSV file itself didn’t have the apostrophes in the data, but they were being added by OpenOffice Calc during the import. Checking the selection marked “Detect special numbers” prevented this modification, but then converted the values to specific formatting that can be handled within the Spreadsheet view. Still not an ideal solution, but clearly the issue centers on OpenOffice Calc rather than Google Docs.

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