I have some multiple choice questions mixed in with open-ended questions in a questionnaire, and sometimes subjects are responding to the open-ended questions with numbers such as "3-4", which are being saved to the data file as dates (4-March). I have tried changing the 'write as text' option from 2 to 1 and vice versa, including deleting the old data files and starting from scratch, as well as trying to format the cells in the Excel data file that it saves to, but nothing has worked so far. How can I assure that the text/numbers subjects are typing in are saved exactly as they are typed in?

Thanks!