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How to get rid of apostrophe in Entire workbook including Column headings

sriniprad08
11 - Bolide

Hi Team,

Hope you are well. I need help.

How to get rid of apostrophe in Entire workbook including Column headings. Even i tried few formulas from the community or from the website. Its not going.

 

Please let me know,

 

thanks,

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binuacs
21 - Polaris

@sriniprad08 try the ReplaceChar([location],"'",'') function

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ShankerV
17 - Castor

Hi @sriniprad08 

 

This can be achieved with the help of multi field formula tool.

Please use the same formula as yours.

 

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Input was: ' in both header and columns too

 

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Many thanks

Shanker V

sriniprad08
11 - Bolide

Thank you @ShankerV . Unfortunately its not working too. Actually when i download the final output as excel or csv its giving the same '.

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sriniprad08
11 - Bolide

@binuacs  Thank you so much. It works inside alteryx. But when i download to excel or csv. The problem remains the same.

binuacs
21 - Polaris

@sriniprad08 Can you upload a sample input file to test

sriniprad08
11 - Bolide

please find attached @binuacs  Like this there are many columns

 

binuacs
21 - Polaris

@sriniprad08 I am not seeing that issue in my output, i didnt use any tool to remove the extra char

 

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ShankerV
17 - Castor

Hi @sriniprad08 

 

Some time the symbol used in Keyboard might be not equal to the symbol available in .csv file.

 

Hence I have amended the below workflow

 

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Many thanks

Shanker V

sriniprad08
11 - Bolide

Hi @ShankerV ,

 

Thank you so much for the kind help. Really appreciate that.

 

Cheers,

Sri

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