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when you import some data into Excel and it tries to format all your number fields (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by Agent641 to c/[email protected]

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[–] Identity3000 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

In case you're not aware, the latest version of Excel absolutely DOES have that setting (mentioned elsewhere here in the comments). While it's wild that it took so long, it's now a solvable problem and everyone should know about it (and upgrade)!

[–] Agent641 14 points 8 months ago

It should be, and should always have been defaulting to the "dont fuck about with my data" setting.

Because there really aren't too many scenarios where I want my barcodes abbreviated to scientific notation.