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0 pointsfbdab1032y ago0 comments

My significantly bigger beef would be all of the auto-formatting Excel does to mangle data. Excel loves to turn entries into dates.

Human genes had to be renamed so as to avoid this Excel features.

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potatoicecoffee2y ago

excel now has a prompt so you can tell it to not convert stuff automatically

fbdab103OP2y ago

Gasp. Big news. I do not recall ever seeing this, so I wonder if $JOB is running some hilariously outdated version for compatibility with a load bearing VBA script.

sgerenser2y ago

Automatic Data Conversion toggle was only added in the past ~year: https://insider.microsoft365.com/en-us/blog/control-data-con...

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