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prevent excel from converting to date

Barkerbg001 answered on January 11, 2023 Popularity 7/10 Helpfulness 2/10

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In Microsoft Excel, when you enter a value that Excel recognizes as a date, it will automatically format the cell as a date. This can cause problems if you want to enter a number that happens to look like a date, but you don't want Excel to treat it as one.

There are a few ways to prevent Excel from automatically converting a value to a date:

Prefix the value with an apostrophe (') before entering it. This tells Excel to treat the value as text, and it won't be converted to a date. For example, if you enter '01/01/2022, Excel will treat it as text and not a date.

Change the format of the cell to "Text" after entering the data. Select the cell, right-click and select "Format Cells...". Select "Text" from the "Number" tab and press OK.

Use the "TEXT" function to format the data before entering it. The TEXT function allows you to format the data in a specific way, like text, regardless of what Excel thinks. =TEXT(A1,"@") where A1 is the cell reference you want to format.

You can also use the "NUMBER" function to format the data to a number which will stop excel from recognizing it as date. For example =NUMBER(A1, "0")

By using one of these methods, you can prevent Excel from automatically converting your values to dates, and ensure that the data in your worksheet is accurate.

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