Microsoft Fixes Excel Feature That Forced Scientists to Rename Human Genes::Microsoft now allows users to disable automatic date conversion, which means scientists no longer have to worry about using alternative names for genes.
Microsoft fixed something and made their products better!? I don’t believe you.
I wonder if this will fix any of my issues with excel molesting my data. It will either round my part numbers from a BoM making it useless or removing preceding zeros which breaks our inventory importing.
What does excel and incels have in common? Confusing things for a date.
My dad uses excel too.
Omfg! The amount of time I screamed at Microsoft because I keep forgetting that excel changes the date format for some fucking reason and doesn’t tell you!
oh yeah I FUCKING hate that.
I worked in a company where excel files were used as a database and then read through JavaScript to be processed…
At least it’s not a giant macro
Took long enough. Now let’s see if they can give an option to turn off Lotus 1-2-3 compatibility stuff like single quotes starting a cell being hidden as markup.
I had this problem all the time in a former job.
