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April 27, 2022
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Hello,
I have few excel files, when I open them all cells in all sheets change to date or custom format. I change the format to general, save and close still when I open the file again the format changes to date/custom. It will be great help if I get a solution for this issue.
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Krishna
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November 1, 2018
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Which version of Excel is it? That sounds like a bug that first appeared in (I think) Excel 2007 where the normal style's number format would be changed to date. There were lots of possible causes - often seemed to involve files with lots of pivot tables - but nothing definitive as I recall.
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April 27, 2022
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Thank you for your response. It is Excel 2016
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November 1, 2018
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There has never been a definitive cause identified that I know of but to correct it you need to modify the Normal style (under cell styles on the Home tab) to make the default number format General again.
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