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Hi:

I'm a newbie so forgive me if this question has been answered. I
couldn't find much with the search option.

Okay here's the problem.

I want to enter this: 1-2 into a cell but Excel keep turning it into
2-Jan. How do I turn this off?

the 1-2 is just a designation of point 1 to point 2.

Thank you for helping.


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You can format the cells to text and then you should be able to enter
the information as 1-2 and get the result expected. Simply select the
destination cells an go to FormatCellsNumberText. Hope this is what
you are looking for.


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this is exactly what I was looking for. your solution is right on the
spot! :)


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