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cm0002@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 8 个月前

Excel logic

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cm0002@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 8 个月前
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    Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates

    Sometimes it’s easier to rewrite genetics than update Excel

    Aug 6, 2020

    https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-rename-microsoft-excel-misreading-dates

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      Best thing is, they introduced some settings to turn that auto-conversion off and they don’t work 🤣 can’t make that stuff up.

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        Nothing works in Excel. Excel will do what it wants.

        But that doesn’t stop the MS support and a thousand stupid people from claiming “oh, you just have to format it as text, are you dumb or what”…

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