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Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 116 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Apart from actual dates.