[lbriner]

Don't get me started on the automatic conversion of strings that it thinks are in scientific notation into numbers - which you can't switch off!

We have large data exports from systems that include things like unique location code. You accidentally happen to notice that a block of these look weird and it isn't just the display of them that has changed, the contents of the cell were changed by Excel automatically, without asking, and you cannot disable it.

Absolute BS after all these years. I hate that they won't fix these niggling issues that keep tripping people up over the years and just make excuses. Microsoft's usual response is: "We only work on things that affect a large number of customers". Yeah Microsoft, if you keep closing these bug reports, then each time someone reports it, you can just say that it only affects one person and close it again.

Or...you could show how amazing your company is by doing what most of us have to do: Fix it, add more debugging for the next time it happens if you can't recreate it, or have a properly tracked reason to say, "only a very few people have asked for this but changing it might break these other areas/bacwards compatability" or something.

[vikingerik]

Yes, it's that last reason. Backwards bug compatibility. There are zillions of recorded macros and VBA scripts and other workflows by non-technical users that inadvertently depend on these behaviors in subtle ways. It's like all Javascript's weird warts, you can't change these behaviors without breaking old stuff somehow. It's true that Microsoft could say that more directly, but of course they'd rather just avoid that argument.

[tssva]

Is there a reason you don't specify the data type when importing or if it is a frequently used data file format automate the import using VBA specifying the correct data type?

[mark-r]

If you open a CSV file without going through a specific import process, you don't even get the option to specify a data type. And once it's open it's too late to fix it, the original data is already gone.

[RajT88]

> Don't get me started on the automatic conversion of strings that it thinks are in scientific notation into numbers - which you can't switch off!

Every week it bites me once or twice. Drives me bananas.

[cynicalsecurity]

Why still use MS Office when LibreOffice is freely available?

[lotsoweiners]

Because that is what your work gives you and what all of your coworkers use.

[wruza]

Does it fix subj-related issues?