text entry converts to Arabic date

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allan williams

When I type the text a0n-n (that is a-zero-n)into a cell
(where n refers to any digit) in Excel 2002, it is auto-
formatted to a custom format defined by B2d-mmm, and
appears in the cell as some Arabic text followed by "-n".
This does not happen in Excel 2000 or 2003. Help?
 

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