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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 “Growth in a Time of Debt” arising from misuse of (15[1])this software. (15[3])Joel Spolsky berates listeners for using this tool incorrectly throughout an instructional talk apty titled “You (*) Suck at [this tool]”. 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 (10[1])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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