If you format the column as text before entering the date, it should stay as
text.
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David Biddulph
"mrbalaje" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have several date range in one Column. When I enter the date as
> 22-Aug-2007, it automatically changed to a number starting 39XXXXX.
>
> I know I can reformat the date, but there are several other date range in
> the same column such as 4Q07, 1Q08... and 2007, 2008 etc. Hence I need to
> have the column format as text to have 4Q07....
>
> Can anyone help me on this?
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