Automatic date formatting

How do you insert the sequence "10-8-6" onto a worksheet without it
automatically translating the format into the date 10/08/2006?

Format the cell as Text before entering the data.

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Ian
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"Vidz" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> How do you insert the sequence "10-8-6" onto a worksheet without it
> automatically translating the format into the date 10/08/2006?

Thanks Ian

"Ian" wrote:

> Format the cell as Text before entering the data.
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> Ian
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> "Vidz" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > How do you insert the sequence "10-8-6" onto a worksheet without it
> > automatically translating the format into the date 10/08/2006?
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>

Hi

Or, place a single quote ' before your entry. It won't show up in the cell,
only in the formula bar, and will tell Excel to treat the value as text.

Regards

Roger Govier


Vidz wrote:
> How do you insert the sequence "10-8-6" onto a worksheet without it
> automatically translating the format into the date 10/08/2006?