Either preformat the cell as TEXT or precede the entry with an apostrophe
like this: '10-6. The apostrophe will not be displayed in the cell. The
apostrophe tells Excel you want the entry to be TEXT.

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"JadedMan" wrote in message
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Trying to keep track of sports scores, and everytime I enter anything that
could be a date it auto-formats. I don't want it to change it at all, is
there a way to turn off formating? Or at least for times that I have this
issue?

When I got into Format Cells, all of the options still change the number
to
something crazy like 39361, or worse.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated, thanks!