Stop Excel from automatically converting certain text values to dates

Question

Does anyone happen to know if there is a token I can add to my csv for a certain field so Excel doesn\'t try to convert it to a date?

I\'m trying to write a .csv fil

Answer 1

EASIEST SOLUTION I just figured this out today.

• Open in Word
• Replace all hyphens with en dashes
• Save and Close
• Open in Excel

Once you are done editing, you can always open it back up in Word again to replace the en dashes with hyphens again.