Ikke, you will need to format the cell as text before you put in August
2004, then it will stay that way
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"Ikke" wrote in message
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"Bob Phillips" wrote in
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precede it with a single apostrophe ', or format the cell as text.


Thanks Bob and Paul, I'll try that. Formatting the cell as text did not
help, because then the 'august 2004' part is changed into a number.

Regards,

Ikke