<attout> text Format extracted as date, not text when opening in Excel

[sharpl]

Anyone knows how to prevent Excel converting "/" into a date format? I need it in a text format, no changes. 

[komondormrex]

add apostrophe ahead of "/" date.

[sharpl]

I will try this too. I was able to assign the text format to the specific column when opening, it worked.

[ec-cad]

For output to Excel, you can try wrapping the Date in double quotes.

e.g. (setq date (strcat (chr 34) date (chr 34)))

ECCAD

[Sea-Haven]

Maybe an easy fix not sure what your text looks like if "10/10/2025" then just use "'10/10/2025" ie add a single quote at start Excel will then work properly. Can you post what the text looks like.