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I suppose they're now combing the hillsides?
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I am using Win10 and Office 2016 at work lappie... and I still have to find something useful that was improved.
But annoying things were not that hidden... One of the most annoying things are the elephanting and useless animations. Specially the "cell selection" in excel, what a crap. And on top it brings a small delay with every interaction. 
Rant mode off... and back to work
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Nelek wrote: the elephanting and useless animations
You can switch them off in the Settings.
I once found a checklist somewhere on the Internet, cannot find a link right now, with the things that have to be turned off (like this animation crap) and on (like auto-saving every x minute, why on earth is such a useful feature not by default) after new office installation to enable normal working.
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Rage wrote: You can switch them off in the Settings.
...but should we worry?
once upon a time computers (o/s, even the bios) had control panels where you could set things yourself. well you've seen what ms has done to removed from it's control panel.
how long before app settings go the same way?
in fact: adding a new account to outlook, getting harder and harder to get into the "set-it-myself" mode - often only after you've been all but forced through the "let-us-do-it-for-you" way. (... ok, being fair android and ios are pretty much the same too.)
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Android isn't too bad about it, but iOS? Apple do not like you leaving their ecosystem!
I had this with a bunch of users recently who piggyback on my domain for email (rather then getting myname12772 at hotmail or whatever, they get what they want) but the security certificate renewal Apple decided was bad and chimed up a message every two minutes. No one else complained, but it only went away when you went into the details on each user iPhone and change the email address ... to exactly what it was before. 
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That's what happens when there is no-one left to tell apart productivity software from games...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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If they annoy you, turn them off.
Lots of people believe that visual effects steal a lot of the CPUs power. That is not the case. If you try to measure the difference in run time with animations turned on and off, in most cases it is hard to get consistent results even with milliseconds resolution of you timer. Actually, most of the job is done by your graphics card, after the CPU has continued with other tasks. Turning off animations essentially makes your GPU idle more.
Over the years, as more and more information has been put into the windows, and big screens allow more and more window to be open, I have gradually opened for those animations I feel help me keep track of what is going on. Generally, I want a "silent" screen. I am not like the youngsters who have grown up with flashing ads and rolling banners everywhere with the latest news, the weather forecast and whathaveyou, and can filter out all that visual noise (modern TV programs, newscasts etc. make me nervous). But then again: I grew up with deep concentration on one difficult problem at a time, far less multitasking than the youngsters. To get my attention, my focus, on something else requires much more. And my eyes are not like they were at age 20, so sometimes I benefit from the attention funcitons, even within one application, such as highlighting all hits from a search. Or, in Excel, highlighting the cells that will be referenced by a function call.
So I select some highlighting/animation functions, reject others. I am happy to have the choice.
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Member 7989122 wrote: Lots of people believe that visual effects steal a lot of the CPUs power. That is not the case.
I didn't say it takes CPU power, I say it switches slower the focus. I have had problems when typing fast because I was faster than the caret.
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It's not so much the computer's CPU, as mine, it's a distraction which causes my brain to switch contexts.
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Sure, so I leave on those attention markers that should catch my attention, and silence the others. I really hate those systems that let your operation fail miserably, but display the warning message in a small window at the bottom of the window stack. Some installer programs are that way, too: More than once, I have been thinking that the installer has locked itself up, killed it and restarted, and only on the third try discovered that deep down in the window stack, it had hidden a dialog window requesting information from me.
So: If you need information from me, grab my attention, call for me - don't hide away hoping that I sooner or later will go out searching for you!
I want essential information to come out. My main reason for using an ad blocker is that the ads keep me from focusing on my work: Some web sites are so crammed with non-information that I just don't want to spend time on hunting all over the jungle of graphics and text elements to find what I was searching for. If that information is either rather subdued, in the background, or is really essential to me (as judged by myself!) and pops up to catch my attention, it is ok.
After all you never would complain about the fire alarm causing a distraction causing your brain to switch contexts, if there is a real fire!
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Member 7989122 wrote: So I select some highlighting/animation functions, reject others. I am happy to have the choice.
Choice is one thing, but MS really needs to go out of its way to respect those choices and make them permanent.
I abhor Outlook's "focused" view. I despise with a passion any app that tries to "hide" anything from me in the name of "simplicity". So I turn off that focused view thing...last week, out of nowhere, with no warning whatsoever...it's been turned back on. I have no idea why. No rhyme or reason. I had to go through all my accounts, one-by-one, to flip that switch back for all of them.
Even though I haven't experienced this (much) myself, there's always plenty of people who are saying random Windows settings get reset every time they upgrade between the different Windows 10 builds (if not on every Patch Tuesday). In this day and age, why isn't this a solved problem...?
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Member 7989122 wrote: I am happy to have the choice.
Don't worry; they'll take away that choice soon enough, just like they took away the choice to select multiple tables, keep scrollbars in view when your cursor is more than 0px away from them, the ability to find a safe place to grab a title bar, etc, etc, etc.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Grumble grumble grumble...
Wedding anniversary this week.
Mustn't forget... something... what was it?
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Against something positive shortly exclaimed America is closely related (14)
modified 12-Aug-19 6:32am.
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I think you will be up tomorrow Pete - I have no idea what this could be 
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Likewise.
I was toying with "Antipathetical" but I can't justify it at all.
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Consanguineous?
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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You beat me to it! 
If we're right, you've got some fun with the theme tomorrow ... 
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I thought of that but couldn'y justify it apart from the meaning 
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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You got it, but do you know what my theme was and how this was all solved?
modified 12-Aug-19 6:47am.
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Well, I really should have got sanguine as positive (think I always think of it more as cool/calm/ relaxed) so I just went for something starting with CON and ending in US that coincided with the definition.
As for the theme, I guess we're in the realms of relatedness or relativity ...
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Oooh, good theme. Better than my choice - words that Shakespeare invented.
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Now that would be a very broad theme and possibly a little contentious - some claim that he invented 1700 or so words, others far fewer and the truth is almost certainly somewhere in between. Was he the first person to say "puking" or was he the first person to write it? Or, maybe, it was written on his behalf by someone else in a sort of 15th Century James Patterson franchise kind of way
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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CONSANGUINEOUS?
Against CON
something ?
positive ??
shortly ??
exclaimed SANG?
America US
is closely related
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