This might be the funniest MS Office thing I have encountered yet:
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@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.
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@aesthr Yes. A soon-to-be 68 y.o. nerd.
@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
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This might be the funniest MS Office thing I have encountered yet:
Excel has global undo/redo, so if you work on multiple files and hit undo a few times. it may change things in a different file. Good luck reconstructing that, if you don't immediately notice.
An absurd design decision imo
@aesthr Yup
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This might be the funniest MS Office thing I have encountered yet:
Excel has global undo/redo, so if you work on multiple files and hit undo a few times. it may change things in a different file. Good luck reconstructing that, if you don't immediately notice.
An absurd design decision imo
Help, I hit undo too many times and it uninstalled Nesticle from Windows 95
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@aesthr casual reminder, ms office is not a thing anymore. they've killed the brand. it's now "microsoft copilot" or some bullshit like that.
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This might be the funniest MS Office thing I have encountered yet:
Excel has global undo/redo, so if you work on multiple files and hit undo a few times. it may change things in a different file. Good luck reconstructing that, if you don't immediately notice.
An absurd design decision imo
@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
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@aesthr LibreOffice.
@c_merriweather Broomstick.
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@aesthr casual reminder, ms office is not a thing anymore. they've killed the brand. it's now "microsoft copilot" or some bullshit like that.
@ar here's 5 pedantry points for you, happy?
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@ar here's 5 pedantry points for you, happy?
@aesthr hey, it just shows how little ms cares about this thing as a product. functionality doesn't matter, it needs to promote slop.
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This might be the funniest MS Office thing I have encountered yet:
Excel has global undo/redo, so if you work on multiple files and hit undo a few times. it may change things in a different file. Good luck reconstructing that, if you don't immediately notice.
An absurd design decision imo
@aesthr Wait, What now?
*Face Palm*
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This might be the funniest MS Office thing I have encountered yet:
Excel has global undo/redo, so if you work on multiple files and hit undo a few times. it may change things in a different file. Good luck reconstructing that, if you don't immediately notice.
An absurd design decision imo
@aesthr I find that if I have to work on data that is complex enough to require me to have more than one instance of excel running at the same time there are better tools for handling the task than excel.
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@aesthr I find that if I have to work on data that is complex enough to require me to have more than one instance of excel running at the same time there are better tools for handling the task than excel.
@pmb00cs the actual example today:
one file containing a list of appointments, one a log of client phone calls. both with maybe a few dozen rows between them. nothing complex, stuff you'll find in most offices probably that aren't run by tech people
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This might be the funniest MS Office thing I have encountered yet:
Excel has global undo/redo, so if you work on multiple files and hit undo a few times. it may change things in a different file. Good luck reconstructing that, if you don't immediately notice.
An absurd design decision imo
@aesthr wait what?
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@aesthr wait what?
@tante welcome to my regular workday in a MS equipped office
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@pmb00cs the actual example today:
one file containing a list of appointments, one a log of client phone calls. both with maybe a few dozen rows between them. nothing complex, stuff you'll find in most offices probably that aren't run by tech people
@aesthr yeah, I'm not saying it's an uncommon usage pattern, or that I have all the answers. But you've got to admit that there are better tools than excel for handling data.
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This might be the funniest MS Office thing I have encountered yet:
Excel has global undo/redo, so if you work on multiple files and hit undo a few times. it may change things in a different file. Good luck reconstructing that, if you don't immediately notice.
An absurd design decision imo
@aesthr Given that MS Office products also still cannot open two files with the same name from different locations, I'm probably less surprised than I should be.
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This might be the funniest MS Office thing I have encountered yet:
Excel has global undo/redo, so if you work on multiple files and hit undo a few times. it may change things in a different file. Good luck reconstructing that, if you don't immediately notice.
An absurd design decision imo
@aesthr Oh my, I was immediately thinking that cannot be true. So asked from better half (who uses MS Excel daily) and I didn't even had to finish the question to get answer "Yes and that is so infuriating! At least I have multiple monitors where I can spread the documents so probably notice that.."
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@aesthr yeah, I'm not saying it's an uncommon usage pattern, or that I have all the answers. But you've got to admit that there are better tools than excel for handling data.
@pmb00cs sure, personally I use R for any data analysis, but that's really irrelevant when I'm in a low level job in an office where IT stuff is handled by an external service company and I can't install anything, and that's just the workplace reality for many people
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This might be the funniest MS Office thing I have encountered yet:
Excel has global undo/redo, so if you work on multiple files and hit undo a few times. it may change things in a different file. Good luck reconstructing that, if you don't immediately notice.
An absurd design decision imo
@aesthr I've seen a lot of stupid shit when working in IT but this blows all that away. It's stupid stupid stupid
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This might be the funniest MS Office thing I have encountered yet:
Excel has global undo/redo, so if you work on multiple files and hit undo a few times. it may change things in a different file. Good luck reconstructing that, if you don't immediately notice.
An absurd design decision imo
@aesthr I remember working in QA for Microsoft on MS project ages ago. We had to take direction from Office on features including the UI. I was testing undo redo in Project and logged bugs about it undoing things in other docs silently. I was told that's the way Office did it, so it was by design.
I tried. I hate that design decision to this day.
