Preserve Single Quote Prefix of Cell Value or Range

Possible Usage Scenarios

When you put some value inside the cell that has leading apostrophe or single quote mark, then Microsoft Excel hides it, but when you select the cell, it displays the leading apostrophe or single quote in a formula bar as shown in the following screenshot.

Aspose.Cells also hides the leading apostrophe or single quote like Microsoft Excel but it sets the Style.QuotePrefix as true for that cell. If you set an empty style of the cell, then Style.QuotePrefix becomes false again. In order to deal with this issue, Aspose.Cells provides StyleFlag.QuotePrefix property, when it is set false, then Style.QuotePrefix is not updated at all and its old value is preserved. It means if the old value of Style.QuotePrefix property was true, it will remain true and if the old value was false, it will remain false.

Preserve Single Quote Prefix of Cell Value or Range

The following sample code explains the usage of StyleFlag.QuotePrefix property as described previously. Please read the comments inside the code and see the console output of the code given below for more help.

Sample Code

Console Output

Quote Prefix of Cell A1: False

Quote Prefix of Cell A1: True

When StyleFlag.QuotePrefix is False, it means, do not update the value of Cell.Style.QuotePrefix.

Similarly, when StyleFlag.QuotePrefix is True, it means, update the value of Cell.Style.QuotePrefix.

Quote Prefix of Cell A1: True

Quote Prefix of Cell A1: False