At 07:55 2017-09-20, Richard Kaye <[email protected]> wrote:
Pretty sure. Unless you use a source file type that might contain
formatting info, Excel is trying to be helpful by making educated
guesses about the contents of a cell.
Which can be disastrous:
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/24/19#subj6.1
Excel garbles microarray experiment data
Another example of mishelpfulness: I was using Word on a uni
system. I was in a hurry to apply to a co-op job so I did not do my
usual option setting. That would have included turning off
AutoCorrect (a horrid name). I saw a flash at the top of the page
and looked. Word had "corrected" the E-mail address on my resume.
[snipped previous]
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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