I'm extracting information from our accounting software into excel. When I
do, there are codes representing a person like SEP1, SEP2...

When these are dumped into excel, they are changing to 1-September, which
really messes up my data. I tried extracting to a saved sheet, with that
column formatted to Text, but that doesn't change a thing.

Does anybody have any ideas on how to either correct this issue or get
around it?

Thank you very much