On 19 Sep, 09:40, Appalachia
wrote:
Seems such a simple thing...

How can I start text in a cell with a hyphen without Excel thinking it is a
minus sign.

Thanks

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Confusion will be my epitaph...

Place a ' in front of your text
For exampleL -

enter 0001, and you get 1
enter '0001 and you get 0001.

Hope that answers your question.

Mark