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Re:Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misre... by jpindar on Thursday August 06, 2020 @11:47AM (#24072005)
Same here, but with part numbers in electronics manufacturing. Excel also removes leading zeros from package names such as 0402.
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Re:Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misre... by arethuza on Thursday August 06, 2020 @11:52AM (#24072082)
That also applies to phone numbers :-(
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Re:Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misre... by jpindar on Thursday August 06, 2020 @12:16PM (#24072359)
And zip codes.
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