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Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data (www.theverge.com)

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[-] MelodiousFunk@kbin.social 114 points 1 year ago

Me before reading the article: It's got to be dates. Excel thinks everything is a date.

Me after reading the article: Even the workaround is halfhearted. Jeebus.

[-] TwinHaelix@reddthat.com 13 points 1 year ago

Microsoft’s blog adds caveats, such as that Excel avoids the conversion by saving the data as text, which means the data may not work for calculations later. There’s also a known issue where you can’t disable the conversions when running macros.

[-] Redacted@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Apart from actual dates.

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