Hello,

I'm doing bioinformatics work in which I often download tab-delimited files describing genomes and open them in Excel. Unfortunately, Excel decides that genes with names like APR1 and SEP7 are actually dates, and reformats them as such. This is a huge headache, as I often don't notice these problems until much later.

Is there anyway to completely disable this date autoformatting? I've searched high and low and have yet to find a solution.

Thanks!

P.S. I'm using Excel 2002