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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 renam
by fbdab103 3y ago
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.
- potatoicecoffee 3y agoexcel now has a prompt so you can tell it to not convert stuff automatically
- fbdab103 3y agoGasp. 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 I do not recall ever seeing this, so I wonder if $JOB is running some hilariously outdated version for compatibility with a load bearing VBA script.
- sgerenser 3y agoAutomatic Data Conversion toggle was only added in the past ~year: https://insider.microsoft365.com/en-us/blog/control-data-conversions-in-excel-for-windows-and-mac https://insider.microsoft365.com/en-us/blog/control-data-con...