Single quotes in text cells

[Eddy Wu \(C\)]

Is there a way to capture the first single quote when using the HSSFCell
class for a text field cell.  
 
For example:
'xyz' is in the excel spreadsheet cell.  When I call the method
getStringCellValue() to retreive the value I only get xyz' minus the
first single quote.  I am able to retreive the first single quotes if I
escape it in excel as ''xyz' but I do not want to require my users to
remember to escape single quotes every time.  Is there a way around
this?
 
Thanks,
 
Eddy