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		Prickle 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: One in five genetics papers contains errors thanks... They already did in 2023. Excel did not have an option for turning automatic conversions off. You can now, FINALLY disable automatic conversion. Honestly that "feature" has been a bane of my existence, and I don't work with genes.

macintux 4 days ago [–]

I had no idea. Found https://insider.microsoft365.com/en-us/blog/control-data-con..., thanks.

I’d love to know the percentage of corrupted data across all Excel workbooks.

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