The negligible little disadvantage is that they (the so-called numbers) are no longer numbers but texts.
You cannot use the cells you formatted the way you described for working formulas, and depending on the formulas you want to use in other cells, references to the '@'-formatted cells may return unwanted (wrong / surprising / dangerous) results.
In short: Don't do it. Spreadsheets are spreadsheets.
[Solved] Disable scientific notation for long numbers
Re: Disable scientific notation when pasting long numbers
On Windows 10: LibreOffice 25.2.4 and older versions, PortableOpenOffice 4.1.7 and older, StarOffice 5.2
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Lupp from München
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Lupp from München
Re: Disable scientific notation when pasting long numbers
1. This will (and must) never change any existing values, i.e. existing numbers remain numbers.ssateneth wrote:Tada, your numbers will no longer be formatted/rounded/whatever and will stay exactly as you entered them.
2. The newly entered digits will be text consisting of digits.
Text and numbers are not comparable. The formula =123="123" returns False. Any text is not equal to any number.
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Ubuntu 18.04 with LibreOffice 6.0, latest OpenOffice and LibreOffice
Ubuntu 18.04 with LibreOffice 6.0, latest OpenOffice and LibreOffice