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That awful moment when what you thought was a number 1 turned out to be a number 2

J.G.Harston Silver badge
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Re: Excel hate?

I've had to go to extreme lengths to get around Excel's habit of translating anything that looks like a date or a number into internal format.

0114200xxxx ? Ok, that's 1.14e9

1/6 ? Ok, that's datedays(34646)

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