When I copy text from the internet and paste it into excel, it changes the numbers I have copied into dates. i have tried selecting all the cells in my worksheet and formatting them to text before pasting, but every time I paste, it still changes the numbers into dates. i don't want dates. how can I fix this stupid behavior?



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Hi
have you tried formatting first as General?

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Hi..yes I tried that too, but it didn't work either.
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