Thank you. The apostrophe seems to work, and does not actually end up
in the cell (like a space character would.)

I was going to ask "is this the official way to do it, or just a
hack?", but then I found the following MS KB articles:

- 'Text or number converted to unintended number format in Excel'
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/214233)
- 'How to prevent the automatic creation of hyperlinks'
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291209)

Looks like the leading apostrophe is the way to keep Excel from doing
*anything* with the value. Good stuff!

If there are any caveats, I would love to hear them...


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