# GrapeCity.Documents.Excel.CsvSaveOptions.EscapeFormulaLikeValues

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<h1 id="GrapeCity_Documents_Excel_CsvSaveOptions_EscapeFormulaLikeValues_" data-uid="GrapeCity.Documents.Excel.CsvSaveOptions.EscapeFormulaLikeValues*">EscapeFormulaLikeValues Property
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<div class="markdown level1 summary"><p>Gets or sets whether CSV values that begin with formula-like characters are escaped during export.</p>
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When this property is set to <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/builtin-types/bool">true</a>, values that start with <code>=</code>, <code>+</code>, <code>-</code>, <code>@</code>, their full-width variants, tab, carriage return, or line feed are written with a leading apostrophe.
The default value is <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/builtin-types/bool">false</a>.
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  <pre><code class="lang-csharp hljs">public bool EscapeFormulaLikeValues { get; set; }</code></pre>
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  <pre><code class="lang-vbnet hljs">Public Property EscapeFormulaLikeValues As Boolean</code></pre>
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<pre><code class="lang-csharp">CsvSaveOptions options = new CsvSaveOptions();
options.EscapeFormulaLikeValues = true;
bool escape = options.EscapeFormulaLikeValues;
workbook.Save("path/to/output.csv", options);</code></pre>

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