Cell Formatting problem

[Schvenzlerman]

I am using Excel Mac v. X.

I want to enter the value "1-14" into a cell. When I do so, it changes to "Jan-14". The program's Help function indicates the following solution:

- highlight the desired cell
- Format
- Cells
- Number tab
- General
- OK

When I do so, entering "1-14" into the cell still produces "Jan-14". I cannot understand why.

In fact, I want all cells in the column to use this scheme of two numbers separated by a dash or hyphen.

I know that this is elementary, but I am a beginner.

[vandan_tanna]

Enter '1-14

[Cutter]

Format the selected range as Text instead of General.