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

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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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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.

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Willem@kutsuya.dev
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yes, those two “autofixes” are “fixed” now. (it’s a opt-in setting)

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