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Turning off date formatting
Hello, I found something on a web page that i'm trying to paste into excel. There are some cells that have rule book references structured like this: 2-4-3 Excel is interpreting these rule book references as dates and would change numbers like the above example to dates like 2/4/2003 How can i stop excel from doing this when i paste? Thanks! -- largeone59 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ largeone59's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=30066 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=497473 |
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Turning off date formatting
You can import it using a web query and turn off date recognition or try to
preformat as text the range where you paste this to -- Regards, Peo Sjoblom (No private emails please) "largeone59" wrote in message ... Hello, I found something on a web page that i'm trying to paste into excel. There are some cells that have rule book references structured like this: 2-4-3 Excel is interpreting these rule book references as dates and would change numbers like the above example to dates like 2/4/2003 How can i stop excel from doing this when i paste? Thanks! -- largeone59 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ largeone59's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=30066 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=497473 |
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could you tell me how to do both of those please?? thanks! -- largeone59 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ largeone59's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=30066 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=497473 |
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Turning off date formatting
1. In excel 2003 which I am working with at the moment, dataimport external
datanew webquery, type in the URL, under options select disable date recognition, click OK then click import. This is mainly if you want to import tables etc You can do the same in previous versions at least including excel 2000 2. Select the range where you want to copy, do formatcellsnumber and select text, click OK then paste -- Regards, Peo Sjoblom (No private emails please) "largeone59" wrote in message ... could you tell me how to do both of those please?? thanks! -- largeone59 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ largeone59's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=30066 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=497473 |
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