Why does Excel STILL automatically remove zeroes at the start of numbers I export into the program?
Seriously, who designed this godawful application? It’s needlessly “helpful”, just auto-formatting all my information into whatever dumb setting it wants. I have to export 500 barcodes into a sheet and organize them but of course Excel HAS to jump in and remove ALLLLLLLLL the zeroes at the start so I need to waste my time going in and formatting all the cells to “text” (otherwise they’ll just keep “helpfully” re-formatting all my data without asking me).
Oh man, and don’t even get me started on trying to type the number “102320241016” into a cell. For some reason Excel decided that should be a scientific notation and constantly changes it to “1.0232E+11”.
Honestly why is this a feature? Who thought that we’d all want this? Why is EVERY Microsoft product I am forced to use for job so excessively anti-user? Between excel, teams, and outlook like an hour of my day ends up being spent trying to parse my way through these bloated, poorly running applications. It’s like they’re all designed to try and help but the way they “help” is by being as annoying and in the way as possible which just ends up slowing down everyone who actually knows what they’re doing.
Seriously, who designed this godawful application? It’s needlessly “helpful”, just auto-formatting all my information into whatever dumb setting it wants. I have to export 500 barcodes into a sheet and organize them but of course Excel HAS to jump in and remove ALLLLLLLLL the zeroes at the start so I need to waste my time going in and formatting all the cells to “text” (otherwise they’ll just keep “helpfully” re-formatting all my data without asking me). Oh man, and don’t even get me started on trying to type the number “102320241016” into a cell. For some reason Excel decided that should be a scientific notation and constantly changes it to “1.0232E+11”. Honestly why is this a feature? Who thought that we’d all want this? Why is EVERY Microsoft product I am forced to use for job so excessively anti-user? Between excel, teams, and outlook like an hour of my day ends up being spent trying to parse my way through these bloated, poorly running applications. It’s like they’re all designed to try and help but the way they “help” is by being as annoying and in the way as possible which just ends up slowing down everyone who actually knows what they’re doing. Read More
