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when you import some data into Excel and it tries to format all your number fields (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by Agent641@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Programmers who have to deal with data I/O and SQL regularly need to use a spreadsheet to examine, columnize and validate data manually, so that data structures are confirmed to be correct. Nobodys programming in Excel per se, but its still a ubiquitous tool that we use on the regular.