MS Office Gripe Thread

[SpeedSpeak2me]

You guys are spoiled having Teams. We have to use Google Meet (or whatever they're calling it this week). Terrible video quality, terrible audio quality, just plain garbage. It's basically the lowest common denominator.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

Internally it's Teams, but if we're discussing things outside the company (say with our ERP support) it's Zoom or Ring Central.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Internally it's Teams, but if we're discussing things outside the company (say with our ERP support) it's Zoom or Ring Central.

Ok. For clarification, kind of the same. Internal is Meet, external is whatever the person that sets it up uses. Every time we have a call with someone using Zoom I comment to my manager how much better it is.

After a year of this she tells me she has a zoom account for work but not everyone can have one due to cost. WTF?

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

You guys are spoiled having Teams. We have to use Google Meet (or whatever they're calling it this week). Terrible video quality, terrible audio quality, just plain garbage. It's basically the lowest common denominator.

This is a legit point, as far as AV quality goes MS teams seems to be the best. Zoom sucks, webex sucks, haven't use google meet in 5 years so I can't comment on that one.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

This is a legit point, as far as AV quality goes MS teams seems to be the best. Zoom sucks, webex sucks, haven't use google meet in 5 years so I can't comment on that one.

It sucks. Pure garbage. WebEx, GoToMeeting, Zoom, all are superior.

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

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This is why I just use Powershell to search for files.

 

[Chester Copperpot]

This is why I just use Powershell to search for files.

Shhh. Don’t tell the peasants of our wizardry. It only makes them angrier.

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

People search for files?

 

[Blood on Blood]

Over 2 hours of work yesterday down the shitter as the Excel file has since evaporated into the abyss

 

[Blownbyyou]

That sucks.....


Anyone have it where you keep loosing your VBA code? Mine will crash and say project or library not found?

 

[blue-sun]

Over 2 hours of work yesterday down the shitter as the Excel file has since evaporated into the abyss

Auto Save. Is it turned on? Did you get the autorecovery option when you next opened Excel?

Save early, save often. I don't use AutoSave, but I do save regularly, even on my larger weekly files that I update that are ~30MB. Those files usually take 2-3 minutes to save due to the size, but I want to make sure it doesn't ever loose data.

 

[Blood on Blood]

Auto Save. Is it turned on? Did you get the autorecovery option when you next opened Excel?

Save early, save often. I don't use AutoSave, but I do save regularly, even on my larger weekly files that I update that are ~30MB. Those files usually take 2-3 minutes to save due to the size, but I want to make sure it doesn't ever loose data.

I have the auto - save and I was manually saving. The version yesterday is gone, but also other files that were open and saved at the time when an IE uninstall kicked off company-wide this morning.

We are not able to recover those current versions.

 

[blue-sun]

I have the auto - save and I was manually saving. The version yesterday is gone, but also other files that were open and saved at the time when an IE uninstall kicked off company-wide this morning.

We are not able to recover those current versions.

Have you tried forcing the Recovery prompt to see if you can find any cached versions?

How to Recover Unsaved Excel Files [All Options + Precautions]

In this tutorial, I cover all the possible ways you have to recover unsaved Excel FIles, as well as some precautions you can take to avoid losing your work

trumpexcel.com

 

[Blood on Blood]

Have you tried forcing the Recovery prompt to see if you can find any cached versions?

How to Recover Unsaved Excel Files [All Options + Precautions]

In this tutorial, I cover all the possible ways you have to recover unsaved Excel FIles, as well as some precautions you can take to avoid losing your work

trumpexcel.com

Yeah, it’s gone

 

[blue-sun]

Yeah, it’s gone

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

 

[CMNTMXR57]

I ran up against Excel's limit of 1 million lines of data the other day doing a data download of one line of our P&L for June YTD info.

 

[Mr_Roboto]

I ran up against Excel's limit of 1 million lines of data the other day doing a data download of one line of our P&L for June YTD info.

https://www.theregister.com/2014/06/27/bofh_2014_episode_6/

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

I swear I get this once every 3 months from idiot users.

 

[Mr_Roboto]

Currently running Edge at work. All browsers are made by horrid people who harvest your data now so nfg.

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

Downloaded files used to go complete this "threat protection" thing in like a second. Now small excel files take 20+ seconds before I can edit them.

Is this bill gates fault, or my companies fault

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

your company. Don't get those on mine.

where are you downloading them from specifically? I am trying to get excel to pop a message like that but nada.

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

I decided not to renew office 365 at work to see what happens, and they keep threatening they'll shut my shit off. I opted not to renew in March, they have kept everything active, but keep threatening me with shut off dates, later and later.

Last week this said November 21st.