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Yeah, the translated VB functions in Excel are a nightmare, especially when one works in a multi-lingual workplace. If you haven't heard finns complain about things being in Swedish before, then I can recommend handing them an excel-sheet with the VB code in Swedish and watch the chaos unfold. :D

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Not function related but I work in a very international org and when excel traverses international boundaries you get strange effects.

Changing some accented characters in a well known brand name into strange ones used in "obscure Serb Croat religious documents

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