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To stop Excel from changing numbers automatically, users can format cells as text before entering numbers, or enter a space or an apostrophe before a number.
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Additionally, adding an apostrophe (‘) character before the value, a space character, or a 0 and a space can all act like the integer part of the number and prevent Excel from changing it into a date.
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Excel can sometimes incorrectly assume that a certain number represents a date, so it can be difficult to import data into spreadsheets. To get around this, users can choose the format of the column before entering or past the data, and Datawrapper will be able to recognize them. Manual inspection can also be done to check whether datapoints have been wrongly changed into dates, and to change the format back.
Excel keeps changing my numbers into dates. - Datawrapper Academy
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Microsoft Excel is preprogrammed to make it easier to enter dates, but there are ways to get around this. To stop Excel from changing numbers automatically, users can format cells as text before entering numbers, or enter a space or an apostrophe before a number. Additionally, if a number is left-aligned in a cell, it may be formatted as a number, or an apostrophe before the number.
Stop automatically changing numbers to dates - Microsoft Support
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Excel automatically changes numbers to dates, so it is important to clear the format of the cell before entering the number. This can be done by changing the format to text or by adding an apostrophe before the number. This method is best suited when Excel has to change the format of a range of cells, while the apostrophe method can be used to change existing dates into text.
How to Stop Excel from Changing Numbers to Dates Automatically
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Excel changes numbers or strings to dates without asking the user, and there is no option to turn it off. This article explains two ways to stop Excel from changing numbers to dates: setting the cell number format as Text and tricking Excel into thinking that the entered value is not entered. Adding an apostrophe (‘) character before the value, a space character, or a 0 and a space can all act like the integer part of the number and prevent Excel from changing it into a date.
How to stop excel from changing numbers to dates automatically
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