How to hide single quote (') in the beginning of a text in excel?

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I have an application that when I click Run Report the data will be generated and exported to excel.
I posted a question already for this.
My first problem is that I have a data in a column Requisition No. which is the value is for example like this 08-20 but when I export it on excel it will became a date like '20-Aug'
So I put a single quote in my code for it to identify as text and not convert to date.

If arrColumn(intColCount2) = 29 Then
    strHTML += "<td>‘" & dr("vRequisition") & "</td>"
End If

but now it shows like this in excel '08-20

I get the output that I want for my first problem.

What I have tried:

what I'm trying to do is to hide the single quote (') at the beginning of the text in excel so that it will show like this

08-20

is it possible to hide the single quote (') in the beginning of the text in excel?