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From: derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Excel Format to do Nothing?
Message-ID: <6241@crystal9.UUCP>
Date: 22 Apr 91 22:06:20 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL
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I would like to format a cell so that
no matter what data/text that I put into
it, it will stay exactly as entered.

I first ran into this problem with dates.
Excel insists on treating my text as a date
not as a string.  I found (with help) out how
to format the cell so that the date stays
as entered.

But....I would love to be able to just enter
text and not worry that excel will change the
format because it happens to look like a date
or a price or something.
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