I've never seen the behavior that you describe, but you can reset
the column headers back to letters. Go to the Tools menu, choose
Options, then the General tab. There, uncheck the "R1C1 reference
style" setting.


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Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com


"sohightenor74" wrote
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2003 EXCEL: After using text-to-columns, column headers change
to numbers,
the same as the rows. Afterwards, it's difficult to create
formulas to work
with in the spread sheets, especially when you want to use
absolute
references. I looked through help but found no relief. The
only way I could
figure out how to change them back is to close the workbook,
open a previous
workbook that has alpha across the top, and then reopen the
problem workbook.
Excel adopts the first spread sheet's view and carries it over
to the
problem workbook. Save it then. If anyone else knows a
keyboard shortcut or
better way to revert to the alpha headers for columns, please
let me know!!
Thanks!

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