Windows XP Ignoring formulas

[lubokian]

Hi everyone,

I'm new to excel and was wondering if someone could help answer a simple question. I'm putting together a sheet of text. A lot of the cells have a dash before them e.g. "- After you have registered and logged in to the Xerox Extranet you will Presented with a page like this one."

However, it keeps trying to turn it into a formula because of the dash. Is there a way of getting excel to ignore the formula functions entirely?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

James

 

[Ian]

Try putting in a space before the dash, as that should stop it

e.g. " - After you have registered and logged in to the Xerox Extranet you will Presented with a page like this one."

instead of "- After you have registered and logged in to the Xerox Extranet you will Presented with a page like this one."

 

[Rush]

select the text you need to change ,Go to format on the toolbar , click cells and under number select text .