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Maybe their starting codebases are different:
- Microsoft Word came from Wordstar,
- Microsoft Excel came from Lotus123.
Just kidding, I'm not serious
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Going in the other direction: Most MS-Office products have Ctrl-; for today's date - that still works in Excel, but Word has never had it. I had to write a macro in Word 6 (but didn't bother when I upgraded to Word 97).
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Maybe it's easier to use that shortcut with a US keyboard layout - IIRC, the double-quote key is just above the right Shift key.
You can't expect a tiny startup like Microsoft to consider things like i18n!
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- Homer
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What annoys me most about it is that you can do it in Word - keyboard shortcuts can be changed.
But Word doesn't have CTRL+; and that's a really useful combo in Excel: today's date.
They go to a lot of effort to get them "looking the same" and ignore all the "nice touches" that make them work for users ...
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I think you can instead of Ctrl+/- just Shift-Scroll-wheel to zoom in/out. And to copy stuff in Excel just Shift-drag-mouse. Or do you hate your mouse? Also you could check out LibreOffice.
I cannot check, I am Linux user now, and happy as Elephant about that fact.
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Quote: My post got deleted? Why so?
Don't think it did - I suspect that the CP Redis problem is back and messages are getting "Lost", only to turn up again later.
I've had several email notifications today that don't have messages attached when I go to reply ...
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There is also a weird thing now where a message linked on the front page is inaccessible. It is by JSOP.
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I'm guessing it's this back again: Missing Messages[^]
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RIP Ennio - And thank you for the music!
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- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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One of my favorite performances
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Amen
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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not the first time those furry fvckers have caused issues - there was a pneumonic plague epidemic in 1911, in North East China
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What furry fvckers ?
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Probably referring to the rats or animals, but it was actually the fleas they carried that was the issue.
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It's not unusual, Mongolia and China typically have a handful of cases per year. Arizona has a handful of cases of the plague per year too. In Madagascar they have/had bigger problems with the plague, with periodic outbreaks, not just isolated cases.
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Good thing I got inoculated.
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Actually, plague pops up here and there, rather consistently, particularly in the western US (for example).
On the page from a google search (buebonic plague in usa):
Quote: The plague, in spite of its lethal reputation, is not uncommon in the U.S. and it is usually no longer a death sentence. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the plague was first introduced in the U.S. in 1900 by rat-infested steamships. It is most common in the western U.S.Nov 25, 2019 China's main claim-to-fame, aside from a massive population, will remain their abuse of that population's human rights.
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And I've got some bad news.
The good news is 2020 is now over half over.
The bad news?
2020 is only just over half over.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Mate, good point, but the best news today: 2019 is over.
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