Disable auto date formatting in Excel
My cells are set to text format but when I find and replace numbers in them they automatically change themselves to date format even though I don't want that. How do I globally disable automatic formatting in Excel?
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asked Jul 28 '16 at 18:01
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My cells are set to text format but when I find and replace numbers in them they automatically change themselves to date format even though I don't want that. How do I globally disable automatic formatting in Excel?
microsoft-excel microsoft-excel-2010
asked Jul 28 '16 at 18:01
user3780895user3780895
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As far as I know, that is not possible. I would use VBA. You could use the.Findmethod to locate cells containing the number to be replaced; then use theReplacefunction to change the string in the cell, and write the results back to the cell.
– Ron Rosenfeld
Jul 29 '16 at 0:50
:/ That's what I was afraid of. For now I'll just copy the cells into notepad.
– user3780895
Jul 29 '16 at 16:43
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My cells are set to text format but when I find and replace numbers in them they automatically change themselves to date format even though I don't want that. How do I globally disable automatic formatting in Excel?
microsoft-excel microsoft-excel-2010
asked Jul 28 '16 at 18:01
user3780895user3780895
612
My cells are set to text format but when I find and replace numbers in them they automatically change themselves to date format even though I don't want that. How do I globally disable automatic formatting in Excel?
microsoft-excel microsoft-excel-2010
microsoft-excel microsoft-excel-2010
asked Jul 28 '16 at 18:01
user3780895user3780895
612
asked Jul 28 '16 at 18:01
user3780895user3780895
612
asked Jul 28 '16 at 18:01
user3780895user3780895
612
asked Jul 28 '16 at 18:01
user3780895user3780895
612
asked Jul 28 '16 at 18:01
user3780895user3780895
612
612
1
As far as I know, that is not possible. I would use VBA. You could use the.Findmethod to locate cells containing the number to be replaced; then use theReplacefunction to change the string in the cell, and write the results back to the cell.
– Ron Rosenfeld
Jul 29 '16 at 0:50
:/ That's what I was afraid of. For now I'll just copy the cells into notepad.
– user3780895
Jul 29 '16 at 16:43
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As far as I know, that is not possible. I would use VBA. You could use the.Findmethod to locate cells containing the number to be replaced; then use theReplacefunction to change the string in the cell, and write the results back to the cell.
– Ron Rosenfeld
Jul 29 '16 at 0:50
:/ That's what I was afraid of. For now I'll just copy the cells into notepad.
– user3780895
Jul 29 '16 at 16:43
1
1
As far as I know, that is not possible. I would use VBA. You could use the
.Find method to locate cells containing the number to be replaced; then use the Replace function to change the string in the cell, and write the results back to the cell.– Ron Rosenfeld
Jul 29 '16 at 0:50
As far as I know, that is not possible. I would use VBA. You could use the
.Find method to locate cells containing the number to be replaced; then use the Replace function to change the string in the cell, and write the results back to the cell.– Ron Rosenfeld
Jul 29 '16 at 0:50
:/ That's what I was afraid of. For now I'll just copy the cells into notepad.
– user3780895
Jul 29 '16 at 16:43
:/ That's what I was afraid of. For now I'll just copy the cells into notepad.
– user3780895
Jul 29 '16 at 16:43
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The workaround for this would be to put an apostrophe (') in front of your "Replace with:" value. Just one more keystroke.
BTW: Microsoft indicates that in Excel 2013, using the TEXT format will stop it from auto-converting numbers to dates. support.office.com: Stop automatically changing numbers to dates
answered Jul 11 '17 at 7:00
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The workaround for this would be to put an apostrophe (') in front of your "Replace with:" value. Just one more keystroke.
BTW: Microsoft indicates that in Excel 2013, using the TEXT format will stop it from auto-converting numbers to dates. support.office.com: Stop automatically changing numbers to dates
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The workaround for this would be to put an apostrophe (') in front of your "Replace with:" value. Just one more keystroke.
BTW: Microsoft indicates that in Excel 2013, using the TEXT format will stop it from auto-converting numbers to dates. support.office.com: Stop automatically changing numbers to dates
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The workaround for this would be to put an apostrophe (') in front of your "Replace with:" value. Just one more keystroke.
BTW: Microsoft indicates that in Excel 2013, using the TEXT format will stop it from auto-converting numbers to dates. support.office.com: Stop automatically changing numbers to dates
answered Jul 11 '17 at 7:00
tjejojyjtjejojyj
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The workaround for this would be to put an apostrophe (') in front of your "Replace with:" value. Just one more keystroke.
BTW: Microsoft indicates that in Excel 2013, using the TEXT format will stop it from auto-converting numbers to dates. support.office.com: Stop automatically changing numbers to dates
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As far as I know, that is not possible. I would use VBA. You could use the
.Findmethod to locate cells containing the number to be replaced; then use theReplacefunction to change the string in the cell, and write the results back to the cell.– Ron Rosenfeld
Jul 29 '16 at 0:50
:/ That's what I was afraid of. For now I'll just copy the cells into notepad.
– user3780895
Jul 29 '16 at 16:43