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This is also why they never bother getting cut and paste to work between apps from companies they buy. It’s compounded by clueless salespeople who don’t know t
by mathattack 5y ago
This is also why they never bother getting cut and paste to work between apps from companies they buy.
It’s compounded by clueless salespeople who don’t know their products well enough to push the improvements that their customers want.
- thrower123 5y agoThe inconsistency in the way copy/paste works just inside of Outlook is maddening. Copy text and an image from an email? Images paste in all broken. Copy just the image from the email? Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Copy the image from the email, paste it into Paint, crop the canvas, then copy from Paint into whatever? Works every time.
- RubberbandSoul 5y agoI have the habit of "washing" everything with Notepad to get rid of inconsistencies: Copy text, data, etc from wherever Paste it into Notepad Copy it again Paste it where you want it and then apply any formatting according to the destination app's formatting rules Not a great workaround but at least it works.
- toto444 5y agoI used to do that and then I learnt about Crt + Shift + v. That pastes the text without any formatting.
- orangepurple 5y agoIn Windows programs another shortcut for unformatted text is Control Alt V where Control Shift V does not work https://superuser.com/questions/407113/shortcut-in-word-or-excel-for-special-paste https://superuser.com/questions/407113/shortcut-in-word-or-e...
- jon_richards 5y agoThat used to work in Google sheets, but now it only pastes the last thing copied from Google sheets. Really frustrating.
- InitialLastName 5y agoThat's broken in Outlook 2108. Now they want you to paste (CTRL+V) and then hold CTRL and click on/navigate to the obscure icon for the paste variant you want.
- TorKlingberg 5y agoCtrl+Shift+V is great, when it works. Which it doesn't annoyingly often, such as Atlassian's Confluence wiki. So I paste and re-copy things in the URL bar all the time. Ctrl + L V A X
- tragomaskhalos 5y agoAh yes - the "sheepdip" as we call it
- klyrs 5y agoFWIW, this is necessary in linux and android too.
- inetknght 5y ago> I have the habit of "washing" everything with Notepad to get rid of inconsistencies I also do that. I 100% attribute that to browsers and people who want to copy/paste HTML and have it all colorized and formatted in the destination app.
- sixothree 5y agoExcel is even worse. Perform any action between the time you copy and the time you paste and everything on your clipboard is lost.
- markus_zhang 5y agoYeah this really sucks. Fortunately I'm largely away from the spreadsheet world. My motto is stay as far away from business as you can and have a happy life.
- joenathanone 5y agoExcel is insane, the undo button is universal, meaning if you are editing multiple spreadsheets, you can’t just undo changes to one of them if you made a mistake between editing, you have to undo all changes to all open spreadsheets to get back to your desired undo point.
- hughrr 5y agoOh god this is one feature that literally makes me want to jump on a plane to Redmond and throw my own excrement at them like a deranged chimpanzee.
- quakeguy 5y agoYeah, this is so unproductive, it boggles the mind.
- tragomaskhalos 5y agoJoel Spolsky used to work on Excel and he has written some brilliant stuff about it (at least, in its early days). My personal favourite is the revelation that the Excel team had their own C compiler, which kind of takes Not Invented Here into the stratosphere.
- officeplant 5y agoThis is why I always open up multiple instances of Excel.
- kevin_thibedeau 5y ago
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