Microsoft Excel 2003
Problem
Formated Text cells auto-change to Date fields.
Example:
In a list of 11,000 part numbers of past sales the spreadsheet is sorted by
part number then sub-totaled on a change in part number.

The sheet is
1. Copied onto itself as values only.
2. Part Number field Filtered for part numbers that Do Not End With " Total"
3. All filtered rows deleted.
4. Show All leaves all the totaled P/Ns with [part number] Total in the cells.
5. Do a Replace All " Total" with {left blank}

Results
All Part Numbers like Molex Part Number 02-06-2101 get changed to dates.

Once a Cell is Formated as a spicific type of cell, IT SHOULD STAY THAT WAY!!!

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