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Re:Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misre... by pwinnski on Thursday August 06, 2020 @10:05AM (#24070971)
This is not auto-formatting, it's deeper than that. It is not actually possible to disable Excel's date recognition, although you can re-change the format of a cell after the fact.
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