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Asked: 2026-05-31T09:04:15+00:00

I copy a sheet from html page.Because I need the sheet structure,the paste as

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I copy a sheet from html page.Because I need the sheet structure,the “paste as text” selection is no use here.

The data will be like this

2/3               3/4
1012/2332         332/665

when paste to excel

2/3/2012          3/4/2012
1012/2332         332/665

the data cannot be parsed to date form is safe while those which can will be changed and cannot be changed back in format cell.

How to disable this feature of excel,really annoying.

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  1. Editorial Team

    This is an obnoxious problem. Have you tried setting the cell format to Text before pasting as text? this works for me in 2003. I’m afraid simply doing one or the other is not enough, and the order is important.

    If this works (and you need to do this frequently or regularly), you can set up a custom macro (e.g. CTRL-SHIFT-P, etc.) to set the format and do the paste all in one motion.

    EDIT:

    For the record, here is what the different paste methods produced for “2/3”:

    Paste (normal)          3-Feb
TXT Format->Paste       3-Feb
Paste->TXT Format       40942
Paste UNI               3-Feb
*TXT Format->Paste UNI  2/3
Paste UNI->TXT Format   40942
Paste TXT               3-Feb
*TXT Format->Paste TXT  2/3
Paste TXT->TXT Formar   40942
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