Apr 29, 2020 · Think people in this thread are missing the point - Excel automatically converts data into what it thinks is the most useful format, such as removing leading zeros and messing …

Jan 31, 2015 · Excel is using the date format you chose - your setting in Windows itself. You could either Windows to match your preferences, or use a custom date format in Excel.

Jul 28, 2016 · 2 My cells are set to text format but when I find and replace numbers in them they automatically change themselves to date format even though I don't want that. How do I …

Jun 28, 2011 · Select the empty fields (or the entire column), set them to a string format instead of the default value, and do a special paste (available on right-click) with "values only" to prevent …

Jul 26, 2021 · 3 When having to compile the text from different cells, I am getting issue with dates converted to numbers. I have 3 cells with patient number, kit number and date (formatted to dd …

Nov 20, 2012 · I'm copy-pasting some data from html table into excel. But excel automatically converts some text or number values to date! When I change the format, the number is …

Jul 12, 2021 · Auto-increment (see below), causes multiple false values in my Excel form. How can I permanently disable auto-increment to obtain the following: I know the easiest way would …

Aug 16, 2018 · 2. How to stop numbers converting to date format on copy paste in Excel? Select the empty fields (or the entire column), set them to a string format instead of the default value, …

Apr 6, 2020 · If I copy data which are in the format like 01-01 to an excel file, it gets automatically convert to a date string. However do I preserve exactly the original text, in this case 01-01? (I …

Nov 18, 2014 · 7 You have two options if you don't like Excel's default assumption that you want your line chart to show "in between" dates where you have no specific data points. Option 1 - …