Format the cell as Text before you enter the text or precede the text with
an apostrophe (which will not show in the cell)

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Kind regards,

Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel

"rich" wrote in message
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I have text that I want into Excel that reads "+12/156" for example, and I
want to keep the plus sign at the front and I dont want it to compute the
fraction - it is not an equation, it is how the text is written. I want
it
to remain "+12/156". I can't find a format...

thanks.