• Identity3000@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    In case you’re not aware, the latest version of Excel absolutely DOES have that setting (mentioned elsewhere here in the comments). While it’s wild that it took so long, it’s now a solvable problem and everyone should know about it (and upgrade)!

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      9 months ago

      It should be, and should always have been defaulting to the “dont fuck about with my data” setting.

      Because there really aren’t too many scenarios where I want my barcodes abbreviated to scientific notation.

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      9 months ago

      Also means one has to give up the license they bought years ago for Office 2019 and actually pay monthly now.