Yeah I've opened mine up to see it organized goofy out of nowhere, but I've always just been able to change the view parameters and get it normal again.
When I realized this was permanent and unmodifiable.....the horror
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When I realized this was permanent and unmodifiable.....the horror
I wouldn't say I'm OCD, but I like the look to be consistent and professional. I'd create nice looking sheets and my former manager would go in and just copy/paste (including formatting) data into cells. Now you have a dozen different fonts being used, all different sizes, etc.
During a call where I was presenting I saw how bad my sheet had become. So with VP's and SVP's on the call I went and started to fix it. Former manager asked me what I was doing. I said "My name is on this sheet, I'm putting the formatting back to how it was when I delivered it to you." Oh, the nasty look I got.
Yes! I do that too.
"Why can't I edit this table?"
Because it is now a rasterized image.
"Why"
So you can't go and make a mess of all the hard work that I did.
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Fish said, I have a few coworkers that leave borders in every cell. Some are thin, double thickness, etc. All over the place. Unless you're needing to intentionally separate or differentiate those cells for a reason, don't do that. It just makes it really hard to read. I don't need a 3pt black border around every cell for 8,000 rows and 15 columns. Just use the default gridlines, it's what they're for.
Here's a totally different gripe. Enable dark mode in Azure. Go to "topology" in any of your environments. Text is fucking black. Change font color from #000000 to #FFFFFF and they STILL fuck that up. It's been like this literally forever.
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My boss is basically the only person i'll send a complete file to because he's good with data, everyone else gets tables pasted as images in an email. Zero benefit to giving them modifiable dataYes! I do that too.
"Why can't I edit this table?"
Because it is now a rasterized image.
"Why"
So you can't go and make a mess of all the hard work that I did.
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Holy shit that this is bad.
*designed by a developer that's never used it in a real-world application.
We would get stuff like that for our proprietary software. It was done by developers that didn't get any input from someone that would actually being using it. Big complaint was that you had to move various components through stages, going from low level to high (all your components separate, then build them into a single piece). Each page for each stage looked identical. All the icons used for each component in each stage were the same. So when looking at the page you had no idea which stage you were in, or which component you were looking it. Mass confusion.
Only problem is the sheet I said in question is used by people at multiple sites for equipment testing. I’m not filling everything out. It’s mean to be fill out your portion and we submit it. However everyone just copy pastes or drags the box to just auto copy everything and the sheet looks like trash.
Outlook crashed for no reason, but not to worry guize the crack team at microsoft has the solution, BUT IT'S ONLY FOR THOSE that speak both dutch and english and prefer to alternate languages every other sentence
Obv I have never done anything on this computer in another language, especially not dutch lol
Obv I have never done anything on this computer in another language, especially not dutch lol
Another week, another perfectly formatted testing sheet turned into a cats asshole cause people are lazy and copy/paste or use the small square in the bottom right corner and drag it to the depths of hell.
Was it cat crusty butt? It was some cat crusty butt, wasn't it? Ol' pencil sharpener left some shavings around the orifice, didn't it?
I mean, if you saw you fucked up the formatting of an excel sheet with your copy/paste, wouldnt you undo it and curse under your breath and fill it out to look normal?
If people cant have pride on how a damn excel sheet looks, how am I to believe they are proud of any other work they do? Am I seriously crazy for thinking like this and my OCD is probably just off the charts?
If people cant have pride on how a damn excel sheet looks, how am I to believe they are proud of any other work they do? Am I seriously crazy for thinking like this and my OCD is probably just off the charts?
Nope, not crazy, not even a perfectionist. Just someone that wants consistency and some mediocre professionalism.
Nope, you should've seen some templates I got back from our construction project managers for budget a few weeks ago. They looked like 3 year old's oragami, half completed. This is even after having three training sessions, me doing them with some of them and then handing it off, and the construction VP reviewing before sending it back to me.
These aren't actual construction techs out in the field all day building shit and then have to come in and complete these, these are the higher level project managers that are bidding on jobs making proposals and running the job... It is fucking maddening.
Cracks me up that when you get a reaction in a teams chat, it gives you a notification in the "activity" tab that means you have to click out of the chat to see it lol. Like I can see the reaction right here in chat, and when I see a notification in "activity" I assume I missed a call, but nope instead they're just notifying you of something you've already seen. KYS microsoft
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes....
Annoying as shit.
Also, *If* you have Teams on your phone, if someone calls and you miss it, the notification won't clear even if you go to the calls menu and click on it to acknowledge it. It won't clear until you clear ALL notifications on your phone. At least on my Android anyway.
I think they're intentionally making MS office awful so that the much-improved UI's on social media feel like a vacation, all part of a plot to turn us in to mindless fat corpo phone-addicted drones.
Not so much a gripe, but something else I noticed in Excel with this update.
On your horizontal and vertical scroll bars, if you click them and drag them up/down or lefet/right, they turn green as you do it... Why? What was the issue that this was needed as an improvement?
What I wish they'd add back was the double tab arrow (left and right) that immediately took you to the first tab or last tab in the workbook. I know you can right mouse click on the arrows and then select which tab you want to go to, but I used that double arrow one all the time. With workbooks with 100's of tabs in them, it makes life so much easier.
On your horizontal and vertical scroll bars, if you click them and drag them up/down or lefet/right, they turn green as you do it... Why? What was the issue that this was needed as an improvement?
What I wish they'd add back was the double tab arrow (left and right) that immediately took you to the first tab or last tab in the workbook. I know you can right mouse click on the arrows and then select which tab you want to go to, but I used that double arrow one all the time. With workbooks with 100's of tabs in them, it makes life so much easier.
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CMNTMXR57 appears Microsoft finally properly implemented a way to undo their stupid fucking display. File > Options > Advanced literally the first option. Restart Outlook. Puts the bar back at the bottom. You're welcome.View attachment 156039
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