I am really sick of excel turning everything that might look like a date into
one

Please make it easy to figure out how to turn it or every autoformatting
thing off completely until user turns it back on or hits a reset. I spent 2
hours searching all the help on Microsoft only to be told how to change how
the date appeared, when i change the jan-1 back into a "general number" i
dont get 1-1, i get 38594 or something. When I re-enter "1-1" after
supposedly formating it to "general" it turns right back in to a date again.

How do i turn the autocorrecting of scores (1-1) into dates (Jan-1) off???

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