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I'm in excel and i need to put 1-30 and it automatically puts 30Jan when i go
to the next cell and can i change that?
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Janet, format the cell as text first or put a ' in front of it, it want show

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Change the format of the cell to Text.

Format - Number - Text (From category)

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