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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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[–] Magister@lemmy.world 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I worked in a company where excel files were used as a database and then read through JavaScript to be processed...

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[–] araozu@lemm.ee 3 points 3 years ago

At least it's not a giant macro

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