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Applies To: - Microsoft Excel 2004 for Mac - Microsoft Excel 2001 for Mac - Microsoft Excel X for Mac

Sure, it sucks that it was there at all, but the most recent mentioned is a 9 year Mac version of the software (which is written by a different team than does the Windows Office anyways).

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I believe I ran into the same problem about a year ago using Office 2010 (on Windows).

Yes! This ridiculous bug is still out there and is why I never use 'ID' when designing my schemas. Seriously, why can't reserved words be designed to be so uncommon, you'll never have a conflict? If I see another 'klass' object in Python or email broken because someone started a sentence with 'From' I'm going to cry.

I definitely had this issue with Office 2007 during my internship a few years ago.

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