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Default On Excel I need to enter 1/2 but it comes up with the date

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="1/2"

--- "FSt1" wrote:
entered as 1/2, helpful excel is interpting this as a date. you will have to
enter it some way so that excel will not interpt as a date
enter an apostrophe before the 1/2 ie '1/2. excel will view this as text
use some other method. ie 1\2 or 1|2

"Dena" wrote:
I need to enter 1/2 meaning 1 or 2 in a cell but it just defaults to 01 Feb
and I cant seem to bypass this. Can anyone advise please?