misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoMicrosoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific datawww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square88fedilinkarrow-up1394arrow-down17cross-posted to: hackernews@derp.foomicrosoft@lemdro.id
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minus-squareTwinHaelix@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 year ago Microsoft’s blog adds caveats, such as that Excel avoids the conversion by saving the data as text, which means the data may not work for calculations later. There’s also a known issue where you can’t disable the conversions when running macros.