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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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[–] 25 points 3 years ago (3 children)

I thought setting a column to string only was already possible.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    It is, I've used that to prevent automatic removal of leading zeroes when reading the values of bytes.

    Based on the article it seems like it's just a matter of not having to spend the time (and mental overhead) of doing that for all required columns and never slipping up on it (now just set and forget).

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