Precede entry with an apostrophe, won't be numeric but it will accept what
you put in there

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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

Portland, Oregon




"blueboy" wrote in message
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Excel always autoformats my dates and doesn't let me choose to 'Undo
autoformatting.' What's worse about it formatting my dates is that it
doesn't let me customize my date. So if I want to enter the date 30
January
2006 as Jan 30, it won't let me. It only allows specific date formats and
if
I choose to do general formatting rather than Date formatting, then it
gives
me some odd number.

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