This might be the funniest MS Office thing I have encountered yet:

[canageek@wandering.shop]

@jernej__s @MatthewPCooke @aesthr incorrect, I just verified it on the version we use at work. you have to open one instance of excel, and then open a second document either by using open or by clicking the new document button.

If you open Excel twice then you don't have this problem.

[aesthr@wandering.shop]

@c_merriweather why is there always someone who thinks this basic-ass "advice" is warranted or even applicable? Do you seriously think nobody has heard of libreoffice before?

I know. I use it every day at home. But my workplace won't switch to it anytime soon so your comment is utterly useless noise

I hope you feel really good about being that annoying type of nerd

[aesthr@wandering.shop]

@donhawkins @ai6yr of course, someone with a Tux avatar would do this annoyingly arrogant bullshit

[i_give_u_worms@beige.party]

@florisbiskamp @aesthr
Absolute villain about whether pasting will/ will not be formatted or if it is still willing to use what was copied

The lengths Microsoft has gone to avoid doing the simplest thing, a shortcut key for paste without formatting that is consistent, is antagonistic

[debdip_kv@mastodon.social]

@aesthr effects of not checking ai generated code . I have this theory - i have observed this multiple times - AI cannot understand objects and its state.
Thereby commits such errors.

[aesthr@wandering.shop]

@Debdip_KV nope, this behavior has been in excel for way longer than that

[shivaekul@infosec.exchange]

@florisbiskamp @aesthr Global undo is the worst!

And then yeah, I have a worksheet that gives a bunch of viewpoints on some specific data. Added a new sheet for a new viewpoint, copied it to another worksheet (different raw data, same design), and they added named variables pointing at the first worksheet, shadowing over the ones that existed already. I knew I had to copy/paste over the values in the formula since those got changed, but took me a minute to figure out I had to delete the names that had been added to the name manager too.

[bpl@snac.bsd.cafe]

Global undo/redo, local-only clipboard. Oh God.

CC: @aesthr@wandering.shop

[tofticles@helvede.net]

@aesthr Gods. This explains -so- much.

I thought Excel was broken, somehow.. (well, it is, but that is beside -this- point). Who in their right mind ok'ed this..

[jrredho@mastodon.world]

@aesthr

I think you meant "funniest" in a different sense that I first thought.

[c_merriweather@social.linux.pizza]

@aesthr Yes. A soon-to-be 68 y.o. nerd.

[aesthr@wandering.shop]

@donhawkins @ai6yr you really think you're special huh?

But you're just too self-absorbed to think about how maybe I'm talking about a workplace where I don't get to control the tech stack the way I do at home.

Now fuck off.

[aesthr@wandering.shop]

@c_merriweather you dipshits are what's keeping more people from using open source alternatives to commercial software simply by being obnoxious and arrogant about it whenever you get a chance. great job, now fuck off

[markmalowany@mastodon.social]

@aesthr Yup

[saucerlost@mastodon.social]

@aesthr

Help, I hit undo too many times and it uninstalled Nesticle from Windows 95

[qlp@linh.social]

@ar Technically correct, but some people don't want to or prefer to avoid the stupid-ass names Microsoft slops out.

@aesthr

[evelyndraken@zug.network]

@aesthr I might well have done this accidentally at work before and not realised. not that undo does much any more in work spreadsheets anyway, someone's learned what macros are and is making it our problem

[barubary@infosec.exchange]

@c_merriweather Broomstick.

[aesthr@wandering.shop]

@ar here's 5 pedantry points for you, happy?

[ar@is-a.cat]

@aesthr hey, it just shows how little ms cares about this thing as a product. functionality doesn't matter, it needs to promote slop.