• DacoTaco@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    You most certainly can. You can set the format of a cell, and if its set to number 12.5 will be 12.5, it wont even try date formats…

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        7 hours ago

        Thats a locale issues that excel has and cant fix ( for compatibility reasons ). Its one of the reasons i hate excel haha. But not related to cell types

        • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.ee
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          7 hours ago

          No, I know. I can fix it, but old sheets and stubborn colleagues and clients and my fucking grandma won’t.

          My point was more related with excel manipulating input incorrectly because of Unspecified.

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      12 hours ago

      they’re talking about defaults, as in when you create a new file the first thing you do is type a number and not get interpreted as a date.