Excel 2007 Bug: "Contains" AutoFilter will not find substrings in numeric values

When using a "Contains" AutoFilter dropdown on a column of data cells formated numerically will not properly identify substrings.

Example:

Column 1
1234 <-- formatted as number
x1234
y1234

AutoFiltering for Contains "123" will return:
x1234
y1234

This could be by design, but it's still LAME.

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