Friends don't let friends export to CSV

Re:Friends don't let friends export to CSV by fbdab103 on Monday March 25, 2024 @10:50PM (#39823849)

My significantly bigger beef would be all of the auto-formatting Excel does to mangle data. Excel loves to turn entries into dates.

Human genes had to be renamed so as to avoid this Excel features.

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Re:Friends don't let friends export to CSV by potatoicecoffee on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @12:27AM (#39824269)

excel now has a prompt so you can tell it to not convert stuff automatically

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Re:Friends don't let friends export to CSV by fbdab103 on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @12:33AM (#39824288)

Gasp. Big news. I do not recall ever seeing this, so I wonder if $JOB is running some hilariously outdated version for compatibility with a load bearing VBA script.

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Re:Friends don't let friends export to CSV by sgerenser on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @10:54AM (#39828699)

Automatic Data Conversion toggle was only added in the past ~year: https://insider.microsoft365.com/en-us/blog/control-data-con...

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