Preserve Single Quote Prefix of Cell Value or Range

Possible Usage Scenarios

When you put a value inside a cell that has a leading apostrophe or single‑quote mark, Microsoft Excel hides it, but when you select the cell, it displays the leading apostrophe or single quote in the 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 for the cell, then Style.QuotePrefix becomes false again. To deal with this issue, Aspose.Cells provides the StyleFlag.QuotePrefix property. When it is set to false, the Style.QuotePrefix is not updated at all, and its old value is preserved. This means that if the old value of the 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 the StyleFlag.QuotePrefix property as described previously. Please read the comments inside the code and see the console output of the code given below for additional guidance.

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