Auto Formatting Cells and Dates

I noticed that if you type in something like 3/16 excel will assume you meant
March 16th and change the cell to a date. I know you can change the format
to text before you type the date in. Can you turn it off completely? Are
there any options you can change concerning this feature (like the date
format it changes to). Can you create your own autoformats concerning
numbers other than dates?

preformat the cell as Text
or
start your data entry with an apostrophe: '3/16



Sloth wrote:
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> I noticed that if you type in something like 3/16 excel will assume you meant
> March 16th and change the cell to a date. I know you can change the format
> to text before you type the date in. Can you turn it off completely? Are
> there any options you can change concerning this feature (like the date
> format it changes to). Can you create your own autoformats concerning
> numbers other than dates?

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Dave Peterson