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Microsoft announced an Excel update that lets users disable the automatic conversion of data into dates. Here's how to change the setting. Microsoft Excel finally lets you disable the auto ...
Microsoft Excel (using the default 1900 Date System) cannot display dates before the year 1900, although this is not due to a two-digit integer being used to represent the year: Excel uses a floating-point number to store dates and times. The number 1.0 represents the first second of January 1, 1900, in the 1900 Date System (or January 2, 1904 ...
Solution: divide one of the tall cells so that the row gets one rowspan=1 cell (and don't mind the eventual loss of text-centering). Then kill the border between them. Don't forget to fill the cell with nothing ({}). This being the only solution that correctly preserves the cell height, matching that of the reference seven row table.
The preference settings that a registered user can choose are displayed in the second row. The year and the day-month combination are wikilinked separately, except for dates in the ISO 8601 format. Full date formats not found in the first column are not autoformatted when wikilinked, and are likely to produce a redlink; for instance,
Formatting the cell as TEXT before entering ambiguous text prevents Excel from converting it. This issue has caused a well known problem in the analysis of DNA, for example in bioinformatics. As first reported in 2004, [96] genetic scientists found that Excel automatically and incorrectly converts certain gene names into dates.
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National standard format is yyyy-mm-dd. [161] dd.mm.yyyy format is used in some places where it is required by EU regulations, for example for best-before dates on food [162] and on driver's licenses. d/m format is used casually, when the year is obvious from the context, and for date ranges, e.g. 28-31/8 for 28–31 August.
If more than one possible type matches, the first type in the above order is chosen. For example, "24-12-2007" matches as a date, so is not treated as a number. Formatting and markup tags are ignored when determining the matching type. The sort mode is determined by the first 5 non-blank rows below the header after loading the page.