I was wondering if there was a setting or any way to prevent Excel from
converting certain numbers to dates.

e.g. 11/7 will be converted automatically to 11/07/2005. This appears
as 11-Jul in the cell. This problem also happens with 11-7.

This is very annoying because it would appear that there is actually no
way of having two numbers (which happen to be low enough numbers to be
dates) separated by a forward slash or a hyphen.

Has anyone found a solution to this problem yet?