XLS to CSV Conversion - #'s convert to Date

[wnagatani]

When I convert an XLS doc into CSV, I have one field that converts to a date
and I do not want it to. The format of the column is text but it does not
seem to matter. The numbers in the field are alpha-numeric, if they contain
an alpha, it does not convert ot a date, if it is just numeric, it converts
to a date. Here is an example of the values:

1-2006
1-1SR0

Help!

[mrice]

You could try putting an apostrophe before the numbers to force Excel to see the data as text.

e.g. 1-2006 becomes '1-2006