Hi!

Unfortunately, you can't turn off that lovely feature that
MS decided helps you!

Preceed those type of enties with an apostrophie '

'6-10
'04/05

or preformat the cells as TEXT.

Biff

-----Original Message-----
Hi

Is it possible to turn off the automatic formating of
certain cell entries
to dates.

For example if I type in 6-10 (meaning six to ten), Excel
presumes a date
was entered and 6/10/2005 is entered and displayed as 6-
Oct.

An other example is 04/05 (meaning the financial year
2004/05), excel
presumes a date and enters 4/05/2005 and displays 4-May.

I know its possible to enter these values other ways (eg
=concatenate("6-10")), but is there a way to "turn off"
this automatic coding
into a date.

Thanks, any help would be appreciated.
.