hi
this is excel being helpful. only way i know of is to preformat the cell as
text or preceed the entry with an apostrophe.

Regards
FSt1

"emd" wrote:

Excel is converting my numbers into months (e.g., "8" becomes "Aug" when in
this format: 8-45). In that example, I do NOT mean August, 1945; it's a page
number. How do I turn off this function? I've looked everywhere for an answer!