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It's infuriating trying to highlight anything in Outlook. Oh, you're dragging to select part of a word, or a huge long URI? Let me go ahead and automatically
by douche 10y ago
It's infuriating trying to highlight anything in Outlook. Oh, you're dragging to select part of a word, or a huge long URI? Let me go ahead and automatically expand your selection to cover the entire token, with the trailing whitespace. Haha, you're trying to circumvent my helpfulness by setting the cursor and shift-right-arrowing? Haha, no soup for you! Break down and copy it into notepad instead!
- mrweasel 10y ago> with the trailing whitespace. Worst feature EVER. I can't begin count how many times I've had the following talk with users: user: My password doesn't work me: Did you copy it from Outlook?
- Daneel_ 10y agoDisable 'smart paragraph selection' and 'automatically select entire word' in the edit options. I turn these off instantly in Word every time I have to reinstall them. Problem solved.
- sqeaky 10y agoHe is helping people on the phone, he might never speak to the same person twice. Settings really aren't a solution for bad UX.
- stevetrewick 10y agoIf you're emailing users' passwords you've got bigger problems than a bit of trailing white space.
- Kadin 10y agoLots of systems email users an initial password which must be changed at first login. It's not the world's most elegant solution, but it's also not terrible and basically does an implicit email verification. I'm not sure that it's any worse than sending a URL with an embedded token that takes the user to a password-change page.
- stevetrewick 10y ago>but it's also not terrible It's terrible. Really. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7943365 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7943365
- NeutronBoy 10y agoLike everything in IT security, it's about your use case, threat matrix, and risk assessment.
- mcintyre1994 10y agoiOS is also staggeringly bad at this. Often you highlight part of a webpage and it decides you wanted from the top to that point, which is stupid. Like one paragraph in a reddit comment or wikipedia -> the whole page, menu and all. I was going to see if it happened here but I can't highlight any of your comment while typing mine.. I can only highlight inside this text box. Good job I don't want to quote anything.