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Stop Excel from changing large “numbers” (text) to scientific notation

1 pointsby thatsnicealmost 5 years ago

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firebazealmost 5 years ago
If i had to guess this would break thousands of obscure in-house excel sheets, crafted over decades, on which tens of thousands jobs and careers depend ;-)<p>Which i guess is why Microsoft never fixes even quite obvious bugs in Excel, for example like here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.extremetech.com&#x2F;extreme&#x2F;313567-scientists-rename-genes-so-excel-wont-reformat-them-as-dates" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.extremetech.com&#x2F;extreme&#x2F;313567-scientists-rename...</a>