April 25, 2026•1 min read•from Microsoft Excel | Help & Support with your Formula, Macro, and VBA problems | A Reddit Community

Excel keeps converting "10-3242" to Oct-3242, no matter what I've tried so far

For some reason, excel keeps converting this value into a date format, no matter what I've tried, which is:

If I do the first two, it'll appear/display correctly, but if I close it and reopen after saving the file, it'll revert back to the date format.

Any ideas on what I can do?

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