Range Mistakenly taken as date in 2007

prasad_inamdar

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Hello Friends,
My Question is Fairly simple.
I want to specify certain ranges in cell such as
5-10
10-15
15-20
But Excel is taking as date 5-Oct and such..
I have tried my best to change cell properties to general but then it is showing me random number 40281 :confused:
P.S. I have tested using random range 31-13, 13-31 which excel is treating as range.
Is it bug in Excel?
 

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Hello & Welcome to the Board,

No it is not a bug in Excel, Excel see those as dates.

If you want to enter 5-10 as text try entering with an apostrophe in front '5-10
 
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