Hello,
you have at least two possibilities, how to do it.
1) write the value like this: '3.23.01
   - the mark ' is important, it tels calc that input is text value
2) prior to writting set format the cell to text

regards
Jan

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Kyle Nitzsche
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> I have thousands of cells whose actual content is something like this:
> "3.23.01".
>
> Calf insists on seeing this as a Date and displaying it in whatever date
> format I have.
>
> If I set the cell format to Text, it now displays it as a number: 36973
> (probably the number of days since some time or other.)
>
> I want and need to see the actual text: "3.23.01".  (It is not a date, in
> fact is is a software version.)
>
> So, how to turn off Calc's automatic treatment of date-like numbers as date
> and just show me the actual text?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Kyle
>
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