Microsoft now allows users to disable automatic date conversion which means scientists no longer have to worry about using alternative names for genes.
Microsoft recently published a blog highlighting new Excel updates that allow users to disable Automatic Data Conversion. This comes as good news for the scientists because in recent years they had to rename quite a few human gene names since Excel wa converting them to dates. For a little bit of context, each gene is given a name and a symbol with the latter usually being an alphanumeric character. So, for instance, Membrane Associated Ring-CH-Type Finger 1 is shortened to MARCH1.
So, MARCH1 became MARCHF1, SEPT1 became SEPTIN1, and so on. Three years later, Microsoft has finally caught up and rolled out a bunch of features that include the fix gene names. There is now a check box labeled “Convert continuous letters and numbers to a date” that can be toggled on or off. The update introduces a few more checkboxes and all of these lie in the Automatic Data Conversion category. Microsoft also added an additional option at the bottom which says “When loading a .
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