Your suggestion doesn't help because the OP doesn't want a date. He wants
text.

Regards,
Fred

"UNIFI" wrote in message
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You can also change the formatting of the cells before (or after) you
enter
12/6.
Menu - FormatCellsNumberDate, then choose format.

"Ani.priya" wrote:

while im try to type numbers numbers like 12/6 in some cells, its
automatically converting to data format like 6-Dec, how can i avoid this?
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anipriya