Hello everybody,

What is the company and corporation that is the object of your hate? What did/do they do to get that spot for you?

Mine is Facebook/Meta for their egregious data collection policies, psychological manipulation of its users, and more recently, them not seeding content.

Thanks in advance for your time! Have a good one!

  • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
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    It can be generated as an excel file or as another file type which we cannot use.

    This is probably a dumb question, and there’s likely a very good reason why this can’t be done, but can you not generate an Excel file from one of the other formats yourself? E.g. have the program output a CSV and write a python script that parses it into an excel file. That way you might have more control over the generated Excel and maybe be able to do it automatically.

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      Yep, export to CSV, format as desired, save in Excel format?
      Might be annoying to format it but I would guess it is easier than having to change data?

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      He can also use an alternative to excel like OpenOffice or libreoffice, I don’t know why would they would use excel when it causes issues.

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        Maybe the output to managers needs to be Excel for some reason, e.g. there’s some processing afterwards with another closed tool.

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          There is many formats that excel uses, the issue is probably with XLSX format, my guess the problem will be solved by either using a different software or changing the format to csv. If Microsoft doesn’t want to bother solving the problem. It is very hard to pinpoint the exact problem without seeing the program, but I will never do something like this manually, I will probably make a script to fix it.

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        2 days ago

        Must be the export into an Excel file that breaks it. By that point, an alternative reader won’t help.

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          2 days ago

          I think you mean export to xls, also each program will have a different way for exporting. It might be that the way excel does it breaks it.