MS Excel - Formatting Issue

Question

In MS Excel 2007 and 2010 I have a database of my sites locations where different locations are differentiated like AUG2345, AUG2346, AUG2347 and so on. When I enter AUG2345 in excel, it converts it to date immidiately. when i try to format the cell, it converts it to number however I want to keep the data as AUG2345, AUG2346 and so on. Please help.

Answer 1

One way is to use an apostrophe before the data, eg enter 'AUG2345 . The ' doesn't display in the cell itself, it simply tells excel to treat the data as text

Answer 2

Before pasting, format the cell as Text . Then paste.

Answer 3

选择自定义格式，并以这种方式告诉Excel，U也可以从此处将其更改为文本或任何其他格式。