How do I keep excel 2002 from changing fractions to dates?

[Guest]

eg. 1/1 would become Jan. 1. This comes up when I copy stats from a fantasy
baseball website into excel. How many stolen bases the player has, say he
was 1/2, would become a date.

Thanks in advance for your help, Ted.

 

[Fredrik Wahlgren]

eg. 1/1 would become Jan. 1. This comes up when I copy stats from a fantasy
baseball website into excel. How many stolen bases the player has, say he
was 1/2, would become a date.

Thanks in advance for your help, Ted.

'1/1
Notice the apostrophe

/Fredrik

 

[Bob Phillips]

Ted,

Precede it by 0 and a space.

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HTH

RP
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[Guest]

Is there a way to have excel do this for me? Or would I have to go through
each cel one at a time to do this?

 

[Guest]

Could I make a macro that would do this? If so, could you explain how?

Thanks, Ted

 

[Fredrik Wahlgren]

Not if the data is already interpreted as a date

Could I make a macro that would do this? If so, could you explain how?

Thanks, Ted

 

[Guest]

Hi, Ted;
Before pasting, format the cells where these kind of statistics will end up
as text. Or if you are using Data> Text to Columns, make sure, within the
wizard, to select "text" as the column format for the columns that contain
those statistics. For data that has aready been interpreted as dates, use the
single slash date format. On my machine this shows up at:
Format> Cells> Number> Date: 3/14
or
Format> Cells> Number> Custom: m/d;@
Hope this helps.
Ian.