text with leading @ symbol - that function is not valid

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Hi, I am trying to put twitter handles in a cell. ie. @blah.

When I enter @blah into a cell, excel responds with
That function is not valid

How do I prepare/format a call to allow it to contain text with a leading @ symbol?
 

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Yep, that works.

There must be a way to do it without the leading ' though - because I've run across another spreadsheet with cells containing @blah. I just don't know how to reproduce it.
 
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Hi ljon
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Try formatting the cell as text before entering the string.
 
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