<story><title>Excel will allow certain auto data conversions to be turned off</title><url>https://insider.microsoft365.com/en-us/blog/control-data-conversions-in-excel-for-windows-and-mac</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>donatj</author><text>Damn near 50 years late. Did the memo that literally everyone hates this feature, and it’s spoiled many scientific studies and brought down multiple businesses just get delivered to their developers?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codeulike</author><text>Its annoying, but to be fair we dont hear about the people auto-date-detection has helped or the time it has saved because those people mostly remain blissfully unaware of it</text></comment>
<story><title>Excel will allow certain auto data conversions to be turned off</title><url>https://insider.microsoft365.com/en-us/blog/control-data-conversions-in-excel-for-windows-and-mac</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>donatj</author><text>Damn near 50 years late. Did the memo that literally everyone hates this feature, and it’s spoiled many scientific studies and brought down multiple businesses just get delivered to their developers?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>verve_rat</author><text>They put it in a spreadsheet, but the ticket number got turned into a date, so it never got processed.</text></comment>