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Also you can single quote ‘MARCH1 to keep it as string. This is safer as when you share the file you don’t know if the next person has the same settings change you described. Either way, it’s only 27 genes they had to rename. Seems like a good choice on their part to just rename them. Hopefully they’re doing this check during the naming stage for new genes.



Now save that file as CSV (maybe because you want to process it with some non-Excel tool) and re-open it. Mar-1.


Touché. I do everything in Excel file formats but I’m also not a scientist.




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