how to write value into cell with vba code without auto type conversion

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This problem seems very simple  yet I just can not find the solution  I am already loosing my mind about it       OK  so I just want to put a certain value into an excel cell  using vba code  just as simple as this   Cells 1 1  Value2    123 456    The problem  this is a string  intentionally   but excel always convert it to number  and put that number into the cell  instead of the string that I wanted   How can I force excel not to convert it  and just put into the cell exactly what I want  the string     Thanks

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Cells 1 1  Value2     123 456    note the single apostrophe before the number - this will signal to excel that whatever follows has to be interpreted as text

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Indeed  just as commented by Tim Williams  the way to make it work is pre-formatting as text  Thus  to do it all via VBA  just do that   Cells 1  1  NumberFormat       Cells 1  1  Value    1234 56

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This is probably too late  but I had a similar problem with dates that I wanted entered into cells from a text variable  Inevitably  it converted my variable text value to a date  What I finally had to do was concatentate a   to the string variable and then put it in the cell like this   prvt rng WrkSht Cells prvt rng WrkSht Rows Count  cnst int Col Start Date  Formula        amp         param cls shift Start Date  string property of my class

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