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.

    • MHLoppy@fedia.io
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      1 year ago

      It is, I’ve used that to prevent automatic removal of leading zeroes when reading the values of bytes.

      Based on the article it seems like it’s just a matter of not having to spend the time (and mental overhead) of doing that for all required columns and never slipping up on it (now just set and forget).

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      1 year ago

      So did i. Format cell(s) > data type (or something) then just seleect text, or custom or whatever.