▲ 212 ▼ Microsoft Fixes Excel Feature That Forced Scientists to Rename Human Genes (gizmodo.com) submitted 3 years ago by L4s@lemmy.world [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world 24 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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.