Excel's power lies in its accessibility, though this very trait makes it a breeding ground for disastrous errors. A single ...

Auto-correction, or predictive text, is a common feature of many modern tech tools, from internet searches to messaging apps and word processors. Auto-correction can be a blessing, but when the ...

Autocorrection, or predictive text, is a common feature of many modern tech tools, from internet searches to messaging apps and word processors. Autocorrection can be a blessing, but when the ...

While Microsoft Excel spreadsheets are commonly used to record research and create relevant databases, a default setting in the software that automatically changes inputs to dates and other numbers ...

Microsoft Excel, that ubiquitous tool for data crunching, has been playing an unexpected role in the scientific world. The program has been screwing with data in genomics studies. A new report in the ...

Researchers trying to raise awareness of the issue claim that the spreadsheet software automatically converts the names of certain genes into dates. Gene symbols like SEPT2 (Septin 2) were found to be ...

Use the following solutions to get rid of the “Sorry, Excel can’t open two workbooks with the same name at the same time” error message in Excel. To unhide the ...

According to a study in the journal Genome Biology, around 20 percent of genetics papers, have errors that have been introduced by Microsoft Excel or similar spreadsheet programs. The researchers ...

Microsoft's Excel has been blamed for errors in academic papers on genomics. Researchers trying to raise awareness of the issue claim that the spreadsheet software automatically converts the names of ...