Hi

How can I turn off or disable AutoFormat in Excel 2007?

I mean that I write the value in a cell then Excel take it and convert it to
date format. It is annoying to me and working these kind of records.


Thanks in advanced!

jimmy

Precede the entry with an apostrophe ' or format the cell(s) as text before
you type anything


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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom



"Imi" wrote in message
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Hi

How can I turn off or disable AutoFormat in Excel 2007?

I mean that I write the value in a cell then Excel take it and convert it
to
date format. It is annoying to me and working these kind of records.


Thanks in advanced!

jimmy

Hi Peo,

Thanks for your answer. I have tested it it works. But here is some
background:
-I have an application which generate an xls file with full of values like
this: 34e3, 32e34, etc.
-When I open it in Excel it realizes that these values should be Scientic
Format and change the format of the cell. Once it is done there is no way
back.
-A possible solution to import the file to Excel as text file during the
process I can set the type of the cell to text but it is several steps so the
users don't like it:(

Any more idea?

Imi

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

Precede the entry with an apostrophe ' or format the cell(s) as text before
you type anything


--


Regards,


Peo Sjoblom



"Imi" wrote in message
...
Hi

How can I turn off or disable AutoFormat in Excel 2007?

I mean that I write the value in a cell then Excel take it and convert it
to
date format. It is annoying to me and working these kind of records.


Thanks in advanced!

jimmy