If I enter 2-4 into a cell, as in "pages 2 through 4," excel reformats it as Feb 4. I don't want that to happen. Yes, I know I can use an apostrophe. I don't want to have to do that. How can I turn this irritating helper... just one of many... OFF?

Thanks!

Change the cell format to text.

Tried that before. Does not work.

Any other help?

did you change it to general? i know we had the problem and thats what fixed it

Tried that too. Same old thing.

Thanks for any help...

you sure formating as text doesnt work. i just tried it (2003) and it worked for me....