This might be the funniest MS Office thing I have encountered yet:
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@aesthr Yeah, copying/cutting/pasting between files is also weirdly
delicate.@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.
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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
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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 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..
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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
I think you meant "funniest" in a different sense that I first thought.
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@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 Yes. A soon-to-be 68 y.o. nerd.
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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.
