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you can be very pedantic about it, but Excel has no problem with 8+ variations of font size, color, and formatting, and everyone outside of typeface designers a
by skeeter2020 2y ago
you can be very pedantic about it, but Excel has no problem with 8+ variations of font size, color, and formatting, and everyone outside of typeface designers and newspaper men references typefaces as "the font".
- dragonwriter 2y agoExcel also has no problem with more than a dozen typefaces, with one size/style of each (I just tested it.) The error message is probably using “fonts” in the technically correct sense for combinations of typeface, size, and style, while the user experiencing the error is probably confused and reporting that they are only using 8 “fonts” using the term to mean typefaces (which is how Excel itself uses the term in the UI, with the typeface selector using the label “Fonts”.) But if you are using 8 typefaces, using multiple sizes and styles of each, you can easily be using over 100 actual fonts.
- fsckboy 2y agoyou can't attempt to decipher the error message without knowing the distinctions, and listen to you getting all pedantic with the history of newspapermen etc. eyeroll.gif