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I’d be thoroughly impressed if all the weird quirks of Excel also make the cut.

Genuinely curious: what weird quirks have you encountered in Excel? Back 10 years ago when I was using Excel daily I didn’t think anything was weird about it (it was actually my favorite tool)

I’m not hating on Excel, it’s a formidable tool. I’ve had some less fun with dates and times in the past and called it quits.

There are plenty of stories, some of them:

Pasting old dates: https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2015/aug/excel-d...

Low row limit: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/excel-specificatio...

Conversions: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4994289/

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