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How can I stop Excel from formating my infromation as a Date?
I have to use edit/replace in excel to format my information quite often. And
anytime I have a value that could be viewed as a date excel reformats the cell and presents the numbers as a date (which they are not). ex: 6--12 in cell A1 edit replace "--" with "-" and you will get "12-Jun" instead of 6-12 I have also tried using the format option with edit/replace but I can not find a way to get excel to stop converting my numbers to dates. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Eric |
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How can I stop Excel from formating my infromation as a Date?
One solution is to use the substitute function to replace the -- with -
something like this =SUBSTITUTE(A1, "--", "-") Where 6--12 is in cell A1. You can copy and paste values to allow ou to remove the formulas. -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "Eric" wrote: I have to use edit/replace in excel to format my information quite often. And anytime I have a value that could be viewed as a date excel reformats the cell and presents the numbers as a date (which they are not). ex: 6--12 in cell A1 edit replace "--" with "-" and you will get "12-Jun" instead of 6-12 I have also tried using the format option with edit/replace but I can not find a way to get excel to stop converting my numbers to dates. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Eric |
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How can I stop Excel from formating my infromation as a Date?
Specify another format for the whole coloum, using a conditional format.
If you create a conditional format, (using simple formula like 1=1), it should override excel's naturaly tendency to "fix" things for you. Phil Eric wrote: I have to use edit/replace in excel to format my information quite often. And anytime I have a value that could be viewed as a date excel reformats the cell and presents the numbers as a date (which they are not). ex: 6--12 in cell A1 edit replace "--" with "-" and you will get "12-Jun" instead of 6-12 I have also tried using the format option with edit/replace but I can not find a way to get excel to stop converting my numbers to dates. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Eric |
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