I am converting word files of exam questions to excel . Many of the answers are dollar amounts, percentages, or dates. Though I specify to convert as text these cells are auto formatted as currency, percentage, or date. The final file is then used to create a program database which doesn't recognize these formats. I currently am manually changing each cell to text format and reinserting the $ or % symbols. Is there a way to turn off the auto formatting of text or trick it into not seeing the content as currency/dates/percentages. Thanks