I don't know if this works in all versions, but when I had that similar
problem I placed an apostrophe ( ' ) infront of whatever you have. It works
for me, but I'm sure that there is a better answer somewhere floating around
on this website.

Good luck,
MikeC

"phmanatee" wrote:

I'm using the @ sign and Excel insists on treating it as an email address,
when I don't want it to. How can I turn this off?