Change the cell's format to Text (or precede the entry with an apostrophe...
it won't print and the entry will be text).

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Rick (MVP - Excel)


"newbie101" wrote in message
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Everytime i type in 9 - 2 it automatically changes to 09- feb. i changed
the
number format to general but it keeps changing back to custom. how can i
fix
this?