Address (char type) to excel (date format)

i have address 17-1-1 but after i export to excel it become date format.
how do i solve this prob ?
tks.

As ssr has highlighted, this isn't a fault of Oracle but is standard functionality of Excel when importing data. Excel tries to intelligently look at the data and give the cell the correct format based on that data. Because your data looks like a date it assumes it is and will format it as a date according to your nationality settings on your PC.
ssr suggested putting a quote before the data which is the correct thing to do.
If the data is:
'17-1-1rather than
17-1-1Then excel sees the single quote and understands this to mean that you want the format of the data to be "text" rather than "date".

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