I’ve never understood why they don’t provide the option to disable it, it’s not like Excel is a sleek, minimalist piece of software with strong opinions and limited configuration.
I also love how the support article describes a behavior of their own software as “very frustrating”.
> "make it easier to enter dates. For example, 12/2 changes to 2-Dec"
12/2 is obviously the 12th of February in my locale. But I need to keep Excel in English as a company policy, so this is not only unhelpful, it's outright wrong.
> Unfortunately there is no way to turn this off.
How does Microsoft justify this choice?