• Destide
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    292 months ago

    Had a call to sort an issue where someone couldn’t open an excel file because they already had it open don’t know why that needed a warning over a simple window switch to the sheet they wanted but hey stopped me doing what I was doing for nothing

    • Rentlar
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      Yeah, needing to use Microsoft Office for everything at work is a damn pain. This one time I am trying to close Word, but then I must have clicked the top right X one too many times so the “You can’t close Word until the Closing… dialog is dismissed” dialog pops up, which itself interrupts the Closing dialog…

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    • ubergeek77
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      172 months ago

      You also can’t open two spreadsheets that have the same filename. I’m sure that’s led to a helpdesk call or two.

      • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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        102 months ago

        I lost a lot of respect for Microsoft when I first saw that issue. It’s such an easy to avoid limitation. Like probably a similar level of difficulty to remove that limitation than to write the error message explaining it, unless it’s more of a spaghetti mess than I’m expecting it to be.

        • @KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          12 months ago

          It’s to do with the ability to work with data across all open workbooks:

          You can reference [Workbook.xlsx]Sheet1!B2 but if you have two excel workbooks open, both named Workbook.xlsx which one should be used?

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            If you want to reference other files, you should use a less ambiguous way to refer to them. Like a relative path or full absolute path. The fact that that weakness is because of a half-baked feature like that actually makes me lose even more respect.

            Edit: thanks for the info though, it does add some missing context.

          • Morphit
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            32 months ago

            Whichever one has the smallest relative path to the workbook using it? How does it find the workbook if it isn’t open already?

          • @psud@lemmy.world
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            32 months ago

            So throw an error at runtime on that macro, most workbooks aren’t the target of a macro

    • Liz
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      152 months ago

      “Hello, yes, IT department? I think my co-worker’s keyboard is missing all their punctuation marks. Yes, it’s making communication very difficult.”