Microsoft now allows users to disable automatic date conversion, which means scientists no longer have to worry about using alternative names for genes.

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.

  • MHLoppy@fedia.io
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    1 year 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).