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Prevent excel changing numbers data to dates.
Help, im going crazy trying to paste data from a web page into excel and keep
the original format but every time I paset something that could be a date (eg 4/4) it changes the cell to a date (eg 4-April) How do I stop it doing this? I have tried changing the format of the cell to be text or numbers only but that does not work, I have tried pasting the data into a notepad (converting it into plain text) first, then into excel with limited success. |
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Prevent excel changing numbers data to dates.
Place a single quote (apostrophe) before the data you want to leave un-changed.
-- Gary's Student "Cindax" wrote: Help, im going crazy trying to paste data from a web page into excel and keep the original format but every time I paset something that could be a date (eg 4/4) it changes the cell to a date (eg 4-April) How do I stop it doing this? I have tried changing the format of the cell to be text or numbers only but that does not work, I have tried pasting the data into a notepad (converting it into plain text) first, then into excel with limited success. |
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Prevent excel changing numbers data to dates.
"Cindax" wrote in message
... Help, im going crazy trying to paste data from a web page into excel and keep the original format but every time I paset something that could be a date (eg 4/4) it changes the cell to a date (eg 4-April) How do I stop it doing this? I have tried changing the format of the cell to be text or numbers only but that does not work, I have tried pasting the data into a notepad (converting it into plain text) first, then into excel with limited success. Having set the format to text or numbers, have you tried Paste Special, rather than just Paste? -- David Biddulph |
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