How do I stop auto conversion of numbers to a date?

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I type in 9-5 and Excel automatically changes my entry to 9-May. I've tried
to stop it using Autoformat but it hasn't worked.
 
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Mike Rogers

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Preceed your entry with an apostrophe or formate the cells as text.

Mike Rogers
 

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