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sardonicbryan
on Feb 14, 2013
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Sorry, Geeks, Microsoft Excel is Everywhere
If you pre-format the cell as text, any value input will be stored in its entirety. For one offs, prepending any string with ' will force Excel to store as text.
For date, it typically does not truncate seconds, so not sure what's happening there.
vdm
on Feb 15, 2013
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My first move in a fresh Excel workbook is Select All, Format Cells as Text.
jmelloy
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If I were to pick one thing I wish Excel handled better out of the box, it was it's annoying habit of reformatting numbers pasted in.
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For date, it typically does not truncate seconds, so not sure what's happening there.