Changing Text format within a Pop Up Menu

I'm trying to apply the characters "1/1" in a Pop Up Menu, but it is coming up as the date January 1, 2009. Anyone know how to change the characters to "text" from the default "date"?

Fractions just don't work correctly, they come up as dates or decimal equivalents. So using a lower case "L" won't solve the more general problem.
However, I noticed that if you type "1/3" as "1 / 3" you'll get "0.33333333" instead of a date. And it gets more interesting. When you pick it from the pop up list, the list shows it as "0.3333333" but it will display in the cell as 1/3. If you had typed 0.333333333 in the list, it will display in the cell as 0.33333333. Strange.
If it isn't too obtrusive and this is a text entry, not a number, you could type your fractions with a single quote on both sides: '1/3'

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