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to Programmer [email protected] • 1 year ago

when you import some data into Excel and it tries to format all your number fields

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when you import some data into Excel and it tries to format all your number fields

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    I’m not sure what version got this, but there’s a setting now where you can disable auto-conversion and it’s amazing.

    https://mashable.com/article/microsoft-excel-disable-setting-auto-conversion-data-into-dates

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      Holy crap, that’s amazing - I can’t believe it would take this long! I presume straight up numbers are no longer affected, too, but I’m almost willing to trust it and try it out…

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        Yeah it stops converting numbers too. At my job we have a lot of ids that start with 0, and it was super annoying to have ‘000123’ turn into ‘123’, now it keeps it as text.

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          That might just be the top tool of the week, then!

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