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		rukuu001 on Oct 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Excel will allow certain auto data conversions to ... Not just you. Perhaps no other software feature has caused more hours of lost productivity than Excel auto-formatting whatever to a date. Edit: I wonder, does '1-1' count as a 'continuous string of letters and numbers'? I still don't want '1-1' to be converted to a date.

n4r9 on Oct 23, 2023 [–]

Yes, I had big issues with Excel converting a number range like "1-3" to "3rd January" when importing property data. Eventually switched to Libre Office which works much more intuitively.

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