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How to correct autocorrect?

I‘m typing a list for my students in numbers on an ipad air. One of them is named „Jan“ - numbers „detects“ that as a date and insists to correct it to Januar (german january). Autocorrect is turned off on numbers itself as well as the ipad… I wouldn‘t mind to correct it by hand but whenever I try, it reverts back to Januar once I leave the cell. (The list for automatic replacements is completely empty)


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Posted on Jan 16, 2023 2:28 PM

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Posted on Jan 16, 2023 2:57 PM

You'll have to force it to be text, otherwise Numbers is going to try interpreting it. The easiest thing is to pre-format the cell(s) as text before you type anything into them. A one-at-a-time way to do it is to start with an apostrophe like 'Jan. The apostrophe will go away and the cell will be formatted as text.

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Jan 16, 2023 2:57 PM in response to Firrin

You'll have to force it to be text, otherwise Numbers is going to try interpreting it. The easiest thing is to pre-format the cell(s) as text before you type anything into them. A one-at-a-time way to do it is to start with an apostrophe like 'Jan. The apostrophe will go away and the cell will be formatted as text.

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