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Identifying text constants and special characters in formulas

Use opening and closing quotation marks to indicate the beginning and end of text constants. Quotation marks without text between them indicate an empty value (no text).

Use backslashes to preserve special operator characters, such as double quotation marks or a carriage return character, simply as characters within a string (instead of as operators).

Example

"\"Fred " & "and Jane\"" returns "Fred and Jane".

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