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Sara

stop changing data to date
 
When I type data ranging from 3-6 it automatically changes this to the date
of March 6 and that's not what I want. How do I stop this insanity?!

JE McGimpsey

either preformat the cell as Text (so that XL doesn't try to parse it),
or prefix the data with an apostrophe to indicate to the parser that
what follows is text:

'3-6

In article ,
"Sara" wrote:

When I type data ranging from 3-6 it automatically changes this to the date
of March 6 and that's not what I want. How do I stop this insanity?!



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