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Hello. I need to use dashes in my part numbers, but Excel thinks I want to
use a formula. Can I turn this off somehow, so that I can just use dashes as
dashes?
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Add an apostrophe (sp) to the beginning.

example:

'123456

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Hello. I need to use dashes in my part numbers, but Excel thinks I want
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use a formula. Can I turn this off somehow, so that I can just use dashes
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dashes?
Thanks.



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Look in your ORIGINAL post

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Hello. I need to use dashes in my part numbers, but Excel thinks I want
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use a formula. Can I turn this off somehow, so that I can just use dashes
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dashes?
Thanks.



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