Well I mean, it's a spreadsheet, if it's not a number then surely it's a date. Why else would you put something in a cell? /s At work we have a lot of Excel sh

Well I mean, it's a spreadsheet, if it's not a number then surely it's a date. Why else would you put something in a cell? /s At work we have a lot of Excel sheets being sent from customers that are basically data dumps from databases. People export to CSV, open it in Excel (not import), and tada, very convenient. Except now those numerical article numbers are missing all the leading zeros, half the weights are dates and so on... It sure is one enticing hammer...