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MS Office Forum / Excel / New Users / April 2007Auto date conversion
I am trying to type the number 1-2130 into an Excel spreadsheet, but it automatically turns it into Jan-30 every time. I've looked all over for a way to disable it, does anybody know which option toggles this automatic correction? It happens in both Excel 2003 and 2007. Aaron Preformat the cell as Text, or put an apostrophe (') as the first character of your entry to bypass XL's input parser. There's no toggle, it's just the way the parser operates. > I am trying to type the number 1-2130 into an Excel spreadsheet, but it > automatically turns it into Jan-30 every time. I've looked all over for a > way to disable it, does anybody know which option toggles this automatic > correction? It happens in both Excel 2003 and 2007. > > Aaron Excel thinks you're typing a date way out in the future. One way around it is to start with a leading apostrophe: '1-2130 Another way is to preformat the cell as Text and then do the data entry. > I am trying to type the number 1-2130 into an Excel spreadsheet, but it > automatically turns it into Jan-30 every time. I've looked all over for a > way to disable it, does anybody know which option toggles this automatic > correction? It happens in both Excel 2003 and 2007. > > Aaron  SignatureDave Peterson Thanks so much for your help. Aaron > Excel thinks you're typing a date way out in the future. > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >> >> Aaron
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