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Default unwanted cell formatting

every time I type a number containing a hyphen (03-8000) into a cell it is
automatically converted to date format even though the wporksheet is
formatted as general or number
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Default unwanted cell formatting

Either pre-format the data input range as TEXT,
or precede your input with an apostrophe (')
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every time I type a number containing a hyphen (03-8000) into a cell it is
automatically converted to date format even though the wporksheet is
formatted as general or number

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