Our research shows autocorrect errors, particularly in Excel spreadsheets, can also make a mess of gene names in genetic research.

Our research shows autocorrect errors, particularly in Excel spreadsheets, can also make a mess of gene names in genetic research. We surveyed more than 10,000 papers with Excel gene lists published ...

And in August, researchers announced that they’d changed the names of 27 genes over the last year because Excel was continuously recognizing the old names as dates.

Our research shows autocorrect errors, particularly in Excel spreadsheets, can also make a mess of gene names in genetic research. We surveyed more than 10,000 papers with Excel gene lists published ...

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 ...

If the two Excel workbooks have the same name, you cannot open them at the same time. For this, either close one of them and then open the other or change the name of one of them.

Millions of Excel spreadsheets are used in medicine, science, economics, and finance. Yet up to 90 percent have serious -- even life threatening -- errors. Here's what you need to know and how ...