#Uninstall openoffice linux series#

Your series of numbers will now be seen as numbers by your spreadsheet program and will be in cells formatted as number cells. Now, hit “Replace All” and all of your apostrophes will disappear. At the bottom of the “Find & Replace” window you’ll see a button that says “More Options.” Click on it, then select the box next to “Regular Expressions.” You should now have a “Find & Replace” box that looks like this: But you have to do one more thing for this to work. In the “Replace” box, type “&” (without the quotes, of course). From the “Edit” menu, choose “Find & Replace.” In the “Find” box, type “^.” (i.e., carat + period). It involves a “find and replace” function. So, the spreadsheet program is treating a series of number as text in a cell formatted as numbers. While you think those are numbers, the apostrophe is Calc’s way of saying that the numbers you see are to be treated as text, but they are in a cell that is formatted as a “number.” You can verify this by right-clicking on the cell, selecting “Format cells” and then clicking on the “Numbers” tab, as illustrated in the screenshots below: If you click on one of the cells, you’ll see that the numbers actually have a hidden apostrophe in front of them, like you see in this screenshot:Īfter spending some time on the internet, I finally found out what is going on. Here is a screenshot illustrating that the numbers look like numbers in their cells: For example, you may want to sort them or use them as part of a calculation and it doesn’t work.

The numbers display fine in their cells, but when you try to do something with them, you find that you can’t. You have a spreadsheet that has a column of what you think are numbers in it.