"Excel doesn’t offer the option to turn off this auto-formatting, and the only way to avoid it is to change the data type for individual columns. Even then, a scientist might fix their own data, but as soon as someone else opens the same spreadsheet in Excel without thinking, errors will be introduced all over again."
The Verge![Spock gripping computer the caption is [Sobbing Mathematically]](https://d1x6es5xzge33k.cloudfront.net/onfocus/2020/08/Sobbing-Mathematically.png)