Excel thinks you're trying to enter a date. Put an apostrophe to the left of
the numbers, like this: '0 4-9 or '5-9 to force XL to treat the numbers as
text and not as a date.

Dave
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Brevity is the soul of wit.


"Maninath K" wrote:

Hi,

This is Mani,,
When i type in Excel sheet as 0-4, 5-9 then immediately i get -- 9-May.

How to come out this kind of issues...

any suggestions.