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Default Opening CSV, How to Tell Excel String is not a Date?

In a CSV file I have values like "3-1". Excel interprets this as a date:
3/1/05. What encoding can I use in my CSV files to force Excel to read it as
a literal string? I have already tried double quotes around the string.

I am using Excel 2003.
 
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