Numbers to dates

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Hey all, I am trying to enter in #'s like 5-9, 10-14, 15-
19 in seperate cells. Now every time I do this it keeps
changing the cells into date format. I've tried changing
it to general and just number but it automaticly changes
it to date. How can i stop/fix this?

A.

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

Precede the entry with an apostrophe ' or pre-format cells as text

 

[Don Guillett]

try pre-formatting to text or precede with ' an apostrophe

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
Hey all, I am trying to enter in #'s like 5-9, 10-14, 15-
19 in seperate cells. Now every time I do this it keeps
changing the cells into date format. I've tried changing
it to general and just number but it automaticly changes
it to date. How can i stop/fix this?

A.Change it to TEXT format.
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