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>You don't understand the problem. Read the article.

Maybe I don't understand the problem, but I did read the article.

Care to explain what I don't understand?

> so when a user inputs a gene’s alphanumeric symbol into a spreadsheet, like MARCH1 — short for “Membrane Associated Ring-CH-Type Finger 1” — Excel converts that into a date: 1-Mar.

I can assure you that if you prepend what you type with a single quote, or an apex or a double quote, what you type will be interpreted a text in Excel, respectively left, center and right aligned.

Even a number, i.e. "45 will result in 45(right aligned), and a small green triangle in top left corner and if you hover on it with the mouse it will pop-up something to the effect of "number formatted as text".




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