When importing or pasting a text file with a non-date field that starts with
a 2 digit number and hyphen (05-99999, 06-99999) excel automatically converts
the entries to a date. I have tried turning off error checking but that did
not help.

If I pre-format the cells as text before the paste, it does not convert to
date. But when downloading I do not have this option. What feature do I need
to turn off?

Thank you