Not knowing your exact procedure it's hard to be specific, but somehow in the
process try to format that column as TEXT, or append a leading apostrophe to
the strings to make Excel see them as text.

hth
Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



"Angel" wrote:

have fields in third party program which when exported to Excel are
autoformatted to date. Ex: 3-8-18 autmatically becomes 3/18/2018.
How do I disable this? Can only export to Excel - program creates new
workbook.