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It corrects my name (Jan) to a month (January)

Hi, this seems kind of weird and I hope I can get some help.


My name is Jan and, every time I write that on a cell in numbers, it corrects to January as a date. How can I correct this?


Thanks a lot

Numbers-OTHER, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 26, 2013 8:40 AM

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Posted on Oct 26, 2013 9:41 AM

Well Jan, Numbers thinks your name is a Date, simple as that. You can send a warning that you are not a Date, in the calendar sense, by starting your name with an apostrophe when you enter it. The apostrophe will disappear in the cell, and the cell will be formatted as Text.


Jerry

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It corrects my name (Jan) to a month (January)

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