Question for Europeans: do you change Excel’s settings so that numbers are written your format? Instead of 1,000.00 it is 1.000,00? If so, how do you work with American colleagues? Indeed, how do you work cross-border within Europe? Don’t the Swiss do like 1’000.00 and the French 1 000,00 ? Seems like it could be the source of potential error / mistakes.

Same also goes for other grammar like using “~” for approximate versus “c.” for circa.

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I keep my Excel to match the format of the country i live in (UK). The format is defined by the instance of excel you have open, not by the file itself - so when a German opens my file, all “,” become “;” etc in what they see. It is admittedly super annoying when you’re helping someone on a laptop from a different country and none of your formulas work though

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Yep I imagine it’s super confusing. I am glad our convention is the same as the accepted coding convention.
For slides I always match the client’s regional preference (same with spelling e.g., organization vs organisation). And when they don’t have one I ask the team to match mine :)

As a European I have never written 1.000,00 … ever.

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German here, currently working with french colleagues. We write everything like it’s done in Germany. They write everything like they do it in France. Never had any issues with that.

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Working together on the same slides? What would that be good for? So we are technical specialists working on a migration project - slides are just for explanation. Slides are not a deliverable itself.

at some point u just rely on common sense to understand if we talk millions or billions

and not give a f*

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