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Microsoft Fixes Excel Feature That Forced Scientists to Rename Human Genes (gizmodo.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

yes, those two "autofixes" are "fixed" now. (it's a opt-in setting)