Excel

Issues

Numbers are unwillingly converted to dates

• Excel is configured to recognize dates and change the formatting of a cell automatically, whenever it recognizes a date.
• Sometimes the recognition is faulty, which results in cells being formatted as dates, even though it is just a number.
• There are two approaches to fix the issue:
  1. Format all the cells before inserting numbers (select either "standard" or "number"):

     

  2. Change decimal & thousands separator (regional settings):

     • Click File > Options

     • On the Advanced tab, under Editing options, clear the "Use system separators" check box
     • Type new separators in the "Decimal separator" and "Thousands separator boxes"

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