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Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Office Libre is free, and modern MS Office UIs looks like dog dookie. OL can also save in Excel format if you want.

Hey look at that, I found a solution that didn't require they change their entire process or have to wait for Microsloughed to get their act together.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Libre calc is one of the worst UXs I have ever had the displeasure of using. I can't imagine anyone recommending it is using it as their main work application.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Even before this, you could just set the format of the column as text

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

FFS, scientists should know how to handle data, and Excel ain’t it.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago

how about fuck MS?

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