How to prevent numbers to get converted to dates in Excel?

Question

I\'m trying to copy paste numberic data from database to Excel. In the database the decimal separator is dot (.) and in my Excel the decimal separator is comma (,). Now when

Answer 1

First mark the cells that you're going to paste to. Right click, "Format" and then select "Number".

Now right click to paste, and select "Match Destination Formatting"

Your text will now be pasted as numbers again :)