How can I stop Excel from formating my infromation as a Date?
One solution is to use the substitute function to replace the -- with -
something like this
=SUBSTITUTE(A1, "--", "-")
Where 6--12 is in cell A1. You can copy and paste values to allow ou to
remove the formulas.
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HTH...
Jim Thomlinson
"Eric" wrote:
I have to use edit/replace in excel to format my information quite often. And
anytime I have a value that could be viewed as a date excel reformats the
cell and presents the numbers as a date (which they are not). ex:
6--12 in cell A1
edit replace "--" with "-" and you will get "12-Jun" instead of 6-12
I have also tried using the format option with edit/replace but I can not
find a way to get excel to stop converting my numbers to dates.
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Eric
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