Hello, I'm a new excel user. I am trying to make a spreadsheet which lists
content in a magazine. One of the colums I have set up is 'pages,' and here's
where I'm having my problem. If an article is listed on pages 12-13, and I
type 12-13, it immediately fills the cell with '13 Dec.' I'm not typing a
date, you silly program! How can I make it just leave my cells alone???

2 ways

1. Right click and format your cell as text.
2 Put ' infront of the 12 (it wont be displayed) and then type your text.

Mike

"Sarah" wrote:

Hello, I'm a new excel user. I am trying to make a spreadsheet which lists
content in a magazine. One of the colums I have set up is 'pages,' and here's
where I'm having my problem. If an article is listed on pages 12-13, and I
type 12-13, it immediately fills the cell with '13 Dec.' I'm not typing a
date, you silly program! How can I make it just leave my cells alone???

On a side note, I must agree that Excel is pretty silly.

"Sarah" wrote:

Hello, I'm a new excel user. I am trying to make a spreadsheet which lists
content in a magazine. One of the colums I have set up is 'pages,' and here's
where I'm having my problem. If an article is listed on pages 12-13, and I
type 12-13, it immediately fills the cell with '13 Dec.' I'm not typing a
date, you silly program! How can I make it just leave my cells alone???

PRE format as text or use ' before each entry

--
Don Guillett
SalesAid Software

"Sarah" wrote in message
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Hello, I'm a new excel user. I am trying to make a spreadsheet which lists
content in a magazine. One of the colums I have set up is 'pages,' and
here's
where I'm having my problem. If an article is listed on pages 12-13, and I
type 12-13, it immediately fills the cell with '13 Dec.' I'm not typing a
date, you silly program! How can I make it just leave my cells alone???

In case you were unaware, if you are typing this information in the same
column, you can highlight the column by clicking on the corrsponding letter,
then click Format, then Cells. From the Number tab, select Text, and you are
golden!

"Sarah" wrote:

Hello, I'm a new excel user. I am trying to make a spreadsheet which lists
content in a magazine. One of the colums I have set up is 'pages,' and here's
where I'm having my problem. If an article is listed on pages 12-13, and I
type 12-13, it immediately fills the cell with '13 Dec.' I'm not typing a
date, you silly program! How can I make it just leave my cells alone???

Ditto for row

"Sarah" wrote:

Hello, I'm a new excel user. I am trying to make a spreadsheet which lists
content in a magazine. One of the colums I have set up is 'pages,' and here's
where I'm having my problem. If an article is listed on pages 12-13, and I
type 12-13, it immediately fills the cell with '13 Dec.' I'm not typing a
date, you silly program! How can I make it just leave my cells alone???