The cell is formatted as a date. Chenge it to general.

"fubar1" wrote:

Jn my excel worksheet, there are a few boxes, that change the data I
enter...For example row F, line 155, I type in the number 46....push the tab
for the next box and the 46 turns into 1/06/1900...What would cause this and
how do I change it?
Thanx....