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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Excel makes some crazy assumptions with dates but....it doesn't get confused about decimals. I just tried 12.5, 1900.12.5, and 5.12.1900 but none converted to dates

[–] UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The worst culprit for me are the alphanumerical employee codes like "MARC4"

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Is that the code for the employee who rats out your stash?

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Yeahhhh I've had similar things happen with device SKUs! It gets confused with letters a lot

[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

As someone from Spain, excel decimals are the bane of my fucking existence