Although yeah, this is a very dumb problem in Excel, you can select a block of cells, or an entire row/column and tell Excel "this is text, don't touch it". But

Although yeah, this is a very dumb problem in Excel, you can select a block of cells, or an entire row/column and tell Excel "this is text, don't touch it". But if renaming the entire human genome is easier than dealing eith Microsoft's BS, I completely understand.