Precede it with an apostrophe?

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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"Neal" wrote in message
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When I add a dash in front of text (in text formatting) it doesn't treat
it
as text, but adds a cell address in front of the text. How do I add
dashes
or hyphens in front of text without this effect?
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Neal