I run a web query that imports soccer results to Excel. Unfortunately the web
site formats the result as 3-1 for example. This text is automatically
converted to 03 Jan by Excel. I can't seem to stop this happening, even if I
explicitly set the cell format to text. Doing so just converts the contents,
which were a date, to the internal date number and if I re load the data it
reverts to 03 Jan again. Does anyone know how I might get excel to leave the
format of the cells alone?

thanks ahughf