The easiest way is to precede the 7-3 with an apostrophe ('). Then Excel will
not modify it. You could also preformat the cells to text, which will stop Excel
from changing them.

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Regards,
Fred


"jsal" wrote in message
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when entering numbers into a cell, how do you change the format from it
automatically changing the numbers inputted into date formats ? for example:
7-3 gets changed to 3-Jul.