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this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2023
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Microsoft recently published a blog highlighting new Excel updates that allow users to disable Automatic Data Conversion.
This comes as good news for the scientists, because in recent years they had to rename quite a few human gene names—since Excel was converting them to dates.
There was no option to disable this automatic conversion, and that ended up affecting hundreds of scientific papers.
It led to scientists taking hours out to manually fix the errors and restore the data.
As the name suggests, this checkbox displays a warning message when you’re opening a .csv or .txt file with any of the optional automatic data conversions used.
Just keep in mind that one of the ‘known issues’ with the update that Microsoft flagged in its blog is that the new conversion option doesn’t work when you’re running macros.
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