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Excel hell messes up ~20 per cent of genetic science papers

david bates

Its the formatting changes to plain text that you foolishly paste in that gets me. Paste in a phone number, lose the leading zero. Paste in a long number and get something like 87687767E10.

I've seen so many issues with data caused by people being caught out by this.

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