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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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[–] 18 points 3 years ago

You could already, after the fact, and per cell.

If you're importing 100,000 rows in, the damage to your data is already done by the time you're at the step where you can set the field to not convert.

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