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Microsoft Fixes Excel Feature That Forced Scientists to Rename Human Genes (gizmodo.com)
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Microsoft Fixes Excel Feature That Forced Scientists to Rename Human Genes::Microsoft now allows users to disable automatic date conversion, which means scientists no longer have to worry about using alternative names for genes.

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[โ€“] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought setting a column to string only was already possible.

[โ€“] MHLoppy@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

It is, I've used that to prevent automatic removal of leading zeroes when reading the values of bytes.

Based on the article it seems like it's just a matter of not having to spend the time (and mental overhead) of doing that for all required columns and never slipping up on it (now just set and forget).