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turn off convert text to date (i.e. 4-9 to April 9, 2006)
How do I prevent Excel from automatically converting text that looks
like a date into a date. For example, if I type in 5-23 or 5/23, I need to prevent Excel from converting it into May 23, 2006. In the data I have, such text is not a date. Putting a single quote in front of the apparent date to make it text is not a feasible option. Similarly, does anyone know how turn off all the automatic formatting in Word? |
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turn off convert text to date (i.e. 4-9 to April 9, 2006)
Doesn't work, unfortunately. I'm using the text-to-columns feature,
and that may be overriding the cell formatting but I'm not sure... Bondi wrote: wrote: How do I prevent Excel from automatically converting text that looks like a date into a date. For example, if I type in 5-23 or 5/23, I need to prevent Excel from converting it into May 23, 2006. In the data I have, such text is not a date. Putting a single quote in front of the apparent date to make it text is not a feasible option. Similarly, does anyone know how turn off all the automatic formatting in Word? Hi, If you format the cells as Text befor you write 5-23 i belive it will stay that way and not turn it into a date. Regards, Bondi |
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turn off convert text to date (i.e. 4-9 to April 9, 2006)
If you're using Data|Text to columns, then make sure you choose Text for that
field. " wrote: Doesn't work, unfortunately. I'm using the text-to-columns feature, and that may be overriding the cell formatting but I'm not sure... Bondi wrote: wrote: How do I prevent Excel from automatically converting text that looks like a date into a date. For example, if I type in 5-23 or 5/23, I need to prevent Excel from converting it into May 23, 2006. In the data I have, such text is not a date. Putting a single quote in front of the apparent date to make it text is not a feasible option. Similarly, does anyone know how turn off all the automatic formatting in Word? Hi, If you format the cells as Text befor you write 5-23 i belive it will stay that way and not turn it into a date. Regards, Bondi -- Dave Peterson |
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turn off convert text to date (i.e. 4-9 to April 9, 2006)
That worked. Thanks. Dave Peterson wrote: If you're using Data|Text to columns, then make sure you choose Text for that field. " wrote: Doesn't work, unfortunately. I'm using the text-to-columns feature, and that may be overriding the cell formatting but I'm not sure... Bondi wrote: wrote: How do I prevent Excel from automatically converting text that looks like a date into a date. For example, if I type in 5-23 or 5/23, I need to prevent Excel from converting it into May 23, 2006. In the data I have, such text is not a date. Putting a single quote in front of the apparent date to make it text is not a feasible option. Similarly, does anyone know how turn off all the automatic formatting in Word? Hi, If you format the cells as Text befor you write 5-23 i belive it will stay that way and not turn it into a date. Regards, Bondi -- Dave Peterson |
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