• Majorllama@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    The fact that you can’t stop excel from doing that until you are inside the document means that if you ever import anything into excel it WILL break your numbers into dates and you have to fix them manually. If you are typing a fresh doc you can obviously change the settings but I spent hours working with Microsoft support and they basically gave up saying that they used to have a beta version where you could disable it, but they never added the feature to live excel and they just gave up.

    10/10 Microsoft.

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      If you precede all your data with an ', then excel won’t auto convert it total a date. Seems silly to do this for all the data though.

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      21 hours ago

      you can obviously change the settings

      And pray the settings don’t change further.

      Because they will. I have no idea why or when they do that, but those numbers will always corrupt, there was never an alternative.

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        Tbf, my Galaxy S22 did this a couple months ago with a system update. All my battery optimization exceptions were reset, so my alarm clock app wasn’t allowed to run in the background. Took me a week to figure out why my alarm wasn’t going off, because they also changed the location of those settings to an even more obscure menu in app permissions.

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        21 hours ago

        Microsoft just does whatever they want and we all have to deal with it. Especially in the corporate space. It’s infuriating at times.

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      17 hours ago

      My recommendation would be not to see it as some kind of battle or trying to enforce any kind of relationship. Try to be healthy and active in live. Learn to love yourself. If you love yourself, so will do others. You won’t find a partner necessarily but the more you work on your individual life, the higher the chances to find good friends or a partner.

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        I’d argue against giving false hopes.

        Learning to love yourself is good. But people should be aware that there’s a good chance they’ll never find love in their whole lives. That’s a reality some people need to prepare to.

        It’s not the end of the world. No one wants to live without love but it happens even to the best of people. The best someone can do is just learning how to live by themselves and enjoy that kind of life.

        If love eventually comes, good luck, but it’s not a guarantee. And if someone has been single for a long time (I mean the better part of their adult life) chances are they will just be single for life, or at least without proper love. And people need to be prepare for that, because it’s not easy.