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

Microsoft advices to format cells as text and paste values after that:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/stop-automatically-changing-numbers-to-dates-452bd2db-cc96-47d1-81e4-72cec11c4ed8