A new setting in Excel gives users control over the automatic data conversion feature that forced scientists to rework symbols representing human genes. A new setting in Excel gives users control ...

The automatic conversion function of Excel, Microsoft's spreadsheet software, automatically converts some inputs, such as numbers and dates, into specific types of data. Although this feature is ...

As mentioned earlier, there’s no easy fix for undoing Excel’s automatic conversion for strings it converts to date. You must format the target cell as Text before entering data. The same is ...

Thankfully, Excel now includes a number of options that you can use to deactivate the unwanted automatic functions. Remove leading zeros and convert to ... me of automatic data conversions to ...

The Australian researchers found that roughly 1 in 5 of these papers included errors in their gene lists that were due to Excel automatically converting gene names to things like calendar dates ...