I am sure that every user of Excel has noticed that
it's been designed by extreme date-whores. Whenever there is the remotest
possibility of interpreting an input as a date, Excel automatically displays it
as a date. Needless to say, the user is not allowed to turn off such a vital
function.
I have thought for a long time that Excel's AI
(artificial idiocy) can no longer surprise me. I was wrong. Today, it did
something truly hilarious. I wanted to enter the number "3,3" (I use
the comma as decimal point), but mistakenly typed "3.3". Of course it
wouldn't occur to the AI to interpret is as a number. No, it corrects two
initial capitals all right, but the idea that one could accidentally press
"." instead of "," (or vice versa) is beyond the Microsoft
programmers. So, it goes without saying that "3.3" means the 3rd
March, right? Right. Except that in this case, I had the cell formatted as
number with 2 decimal places. So Excel... no-no, it did not turn my input into
"3,30". Get real. It turned the DATE into a number and so displayed
"41366,00".
I think Microsoft has earned an honourable place in
the history of medicine, because clearly it has discovered a form of mental
retardation so far unknown to the science.
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