Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates

Re:Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misre... by LatteLazy on Thursday August 06, 2020 @11:23AM (#24071747)

You turn them off,forget about it, and then auto-update turns them all back on for you!

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Re:Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misre... by jandrese on Thursday August 06, 2020 @04:03PM (#24074861)

Or you're on a different machine that doesn't have it and you have to decide if digging through the menus to turn them off is worse than manually undoing all of the "fixes" for your message.

Have you ever posted a code snippit into a default install of Outlook?

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Re:Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misre... by stjohnswarts on Thursday August 06, 2020 @04:36PM (#24075200)

usually you can ctrl-z it, but it gets annoying if you're trying to type a small code snippet in MS Word or similar.

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