If you're importing the files via File|Open (and opening a text file), you'll
see the text to columns wizard.

You can specify the format for each field--general, text, date, or skip.

You'd want to specify Text for these type fields.

jxbeeman wrote:

Okay! I am importing part numbers into excel and some of the part numbers get
automatically changed into dates because of the format. for example 7-40
turns into Jul-40. How do I turn off this auto data editing so my numbers
don't get changed.

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Dave Peterson