Decimals identified by dates and cannot be changed?

Input decimals like 1.29, it's always indentified as date. I tried to change the cell format to Numbers, it still doesn't work.
If I input '1.29, it would be OK. But is there any other way to change the format in bulk?
Thanks...

Once Numbers has determined a cell has a date in it, it wants to stick with it. You can change it to text, though. Format these Date & Time cells to show only the month and year (1.29 not 1.29.14) then change them to text.  But to get them into actual numbers, you probably will need to do as Wayne said and go to System Preferences first.  I don't know if it is your date format or number format that is the problem or maybe both. After you get that worked out, you can go back into Numbers and format those cells with a number format. In my localization (US) I don't have a date format that uses dots between the numbers so I can't test all this out.
Also, when you enter a number as  '1.29 you are entering it as text.  Some formulas will interpret it as a number, some will consider it to be text and will ignore it.

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