How to prevent numbers to get converted to dates in Excel?

Question

I\'m trying to copy paste numberic data from database to Excel. In the database the decimal separator is dot (.) and in my Excel the decimal separator is comma (,). Now when

Answer 1

1. Open Microsoft Word
2. Paste your data from web
3. Open excel
4. Format all as text
5. copy all from word (Ctr+A)
6. Paste special in Excel as text vuala!