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How force Google Sheets to accept the text as TEXT FORMAT (and stopped autoformatting as number)

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For example, when I paste:

+XYZ

in Google Sheets, it autoformats it:

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I've tried different things (Format>Plain Text) but it doesnt work. I just want to get what I paste there as plain text. (i dont have predetermined format of what i paste there, the sentecne might start with + symbol, with = symbol or whatever. I just want it stopped formatting of inputed data).

I saw answers to similar questions, which suggest putting ' or whatever. But i dont want to manually put some symbols in front of every line, as I paste hundreds of lines.


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