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Agent641@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

when you import some data into Excel and it tries to format all your number fields

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when you import some data into Excel and it tries to format all your number fields

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Agent641@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    can you imagine a world without excel?

  • quicken@aussie.zone
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    Like how several Genes were renamed because of excel https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-rename-microsoft-excel-misreading-dates

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    Fuck you Excel, that’s a date, not $946,684,800

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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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