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Special Characters
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Written by Jonathon Fruchte
Updated over 6 years ago

Excel documents must be coded in XML, not HTML. In XML, certain characters require different escaping than in HTML:

  • Ampersands (&) should be & 

  • Quotation marks (") should be " 

  • Apostrophes (') should be ' 

  • Less than (<) should be &lt; 

  • Greater than (>) should be &gt; 

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