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Re:Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misre... by vsareto on Thursday August 06, 2020 @10:27AM (#24071163)
>It's honestly amazing that Excel hasn't fixed this issue.

I'm surprised there hasn't been a dotfile option added yet

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Re:Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misre... by jtdev on Thursday August 06, 2020 @11:02AM (#24071520)
Maybe a registry edit?
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Re:Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misre... by dirtnugget on Saturday August 08, 2020 @01:44AM (#24089364)
Sure, open the gates to hell.
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