At 07:55 2017-09-20, Richard Kaye rkaye@invaluable.com wrote:

Pretty sure. Unless you use a source file type that might contain formatting info, Excel is trying to be helpful by making educated guesses about the contents of a cell.

Which can be disastrous: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/24/19#subj6.1 Excel garbles microarray experiment data

Another example of mishelpfulness: I was using Word on a uni system. I was in a hurry to apply to a co-op job so I did not do my usual option setting. That would have included turning off AutoCorrect (a horrid name). I saw a flash at the top of the page and looked. Word had "corrected" the E-mail address on my resume.

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Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko