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Honestly, the automatic datetime conversion is the worst part if you’re just trying to keep it text. It’s idiotic there isn’t a simple way to turn off that off. That’s not formatting, that’s actually changing the data in those cells which may not be what you want.

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In case you’re not aware, the latest version of Excel absolutely DOES have that setting (mentioned elsewhere here in the comments). While it’s wild that it took so long, it’s now a solvable problem and everyone should know about it (and upgrade)!

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It should be, and should always have been defaulting to the “dont fuck about with my data” setting.

Because there really aren’t too many scenarios where I want my barcodes abbreviated to scientific notation.

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Also means one has to give up the license they bought years ago for Office 2019 and actually pay monthly now.

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2 points

Or use Ohook

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It should make me irrationally angry, but no, it’s a rational hatred. It burns even more intensely.

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