How do I turn this off?

Unfortunately, you can't.

What you can do is precede the entry with an apostrophe like: '5-10. The
apostrophe will not display in the cell.

Or, you can pre-format the cells as TEXT.

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"MAtt" wrote in message
...
When i type '5-10' for example, and then press enter or leave that box,
the
'5-10' i typed automatically changes to '05-Oct'. It's really irritating
and
it happens with others, such as '10-15', basically anything that looks
like a
date.

How do I turn this off?