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when you import some data into Excel and it tries to format all your number fields (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by Agent641@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Holy crap, that's amazing - I can't believe it would take this long! I presume straight up numbers are no longer affected, too, but I'm almost willing to trust it and try it out...

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah it stops converting numbers too. At my job we have a lot of ids that start with 0, and it was super annoying to have '000123' turn into '123', now it keeps it as text.

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

That might just be the top tool of the week, then!