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During a recorded talk about this tool, the speaker paused to take a question from the audience, then said “I don’t understand that question” and immediately went back to talking. While a grad student at UMass, Thomas Herndon discovered errors in the influential paper (15[1])“Growth in a Time of Debt” arising from misuse of this software. (15[2])Joel Spolsky berates listeners for using this tool incorrectly throughout an instructional talk apty titled “You (*) Suck at [this tool]”. (10[1])A 2016 study found gene name conversion errors in the data for roughly one-fifth of surveyed genomics papers due to this software. It’s often recommended to use this software’s INDEX and MATCH functions instead of the slower and less flexible VLOOKUP. For 10 points, incorrect use of what Microsoft software might result in it treating a string of numbers as a date? ■END■

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