"Christine" wrote in message
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I have a column of data in Word that contains info like, K-12, K-6, P,
9-12,
6-8. When I copy the data to Excel, the cells with the letters copy
correctly, but the cells with the numbers convert to dates. I've tried
pre-formatting the target cells in Excel ...

Pre-format the target cells ; then use Paste Special -- Text.

Rgds,
Andy