Hi,

I have some zip files of spreadsheets that I downloaded off the net
displaying various odds for betting markets (betfair historical data).
However for some of the cells which contain correct scores for football a
date has been substituted e.g. 1 - 3 gets automatically converted to 1st
March (or something). I normally get round this problem by formatting the
relevant cells as text before entering the correct score, but I can't do
this since they have already been converted on unzipping.

If I format as text afterwards I just get mysterious 5 figure numbers.

Any suggestion as to what I can do? I can't do it one by one manually
because they might be 10s of thousands of correct scores which have been
converted into a date.