At the time of writing, there is no way to turn off scientific notation by default in Excel. Some would argue it is a simple change that would solve some major database problems for a lot of people. Even more people would argue that, realistically, it’s not Excel’s fault, as it should not be used as a database in the first place. But, if we’re being honest, it will be. And it can cause problems with far more prosaic features than scientific notation. Spell check is bad enough.
