[fbdab103]

My significantly bigger beef would be all of the auto-formatting Excel does to mangle data. Excel loves to turn entries into dates.

Human genes had to be renamed so as to avoid this Excel features.

[potatoicecoffee]

excel now has a prompt so you can tell it to not convert stuff automatically

[fbdab103]

Gasp. Big news. I do not recall ever seeing this, so I wonder if $JOB is running some hilariously outdated version for compatibility with a load bearing VBA script.

[sgerenser]

Automatic Data Conversion toggle was only added in the past ~year: https://insider.microsoft365.com/en-us/blog/control-data-con...