Shutting down automatic formation of dates in Microsoft Excel can be relatively easy. Let's setup a scenario, where are sharing pizza among six people. We'd have data like this:

data table dates

1. Right click on the cells you would like to add values to (1), then choose format cells (2).

format cells

2. Choose number or any other category of your desire (1), and then click ok (2).

category formatting

Check also our date duration calculator.