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Excel 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 mistak
by joenathanone 5y ago
Excel 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 agoIt's still an MDI app under the covers (not that that's any excuse).