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		IanCal on Oct 6, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-t... Although make sure to not use that for the first column heading, an uppercase I will make excel think it's a SYLK file and then refuse to open it.

TacoSteemers on Oct 6, 2020 [–]

Good catch! The Wikipedia page confirms it.

Nothing in software development is as straightforward as we might hope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_Link_(SYLK)

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