Precede the 1-1 with an apostrophe. I will not show in the cell or in a
print out.
best wishes
Bernard

"AaronMahl" wrote in message
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How can I stop excel from correcting data I put in a cell? For instance,
I
type in
1-1 and it automatically makes it Jan00
I want to be able to use the dash without having it be a date.