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That's the reason I always use the English version of Office. But then it's so weird when I go help some colleague and they're using the local version, and I'm
by rjtavares 13y ago
That's the reason I always use the English version of Office. But then it's so weird when I go help some colleague and they're using the local version, and I'm suddenly a beginner... A remainder of the old world in today's hyper-globalized world.
- swah 13y agoAnd it makes auto completion useless. You type 'SU' and stare the screen "WTF?". Oh, this Excel is in PT-BR! 'SOMA'
- rjtavares 13y agoAnd they even change conventions. "SUMIF" must be "SOMASE", right? Wrong, in PT there's a "." between words, so it's "SOMA.SE"...
- dhekir 13y agoNot only PT, that happens in most languages where the dot is not the decimal separator. It might have been the case in English as well if they used commas.
- Aldo_MX 13y agoThat's the reason I always use the English version of everything. What I find most ridiculous is when hotkeys get translated, ex. Ctrl+S is Underline in Spanish (Subrayar)
- Pxtl 13y agoIt never occurred to me that other languages would have different hot-keys. Intuitively it makes sense, but damn I imagine a lot of programs don't do it so it must be a horribly inconsistent experience (I get angry when a program fails to support something like CTRL-W to close windows or CTRL-A for select all or the inconsistency between some using ctrl-shift-Z or ctrl-Y for redo). I guess that's the advantage to the old Word Perfect approach of function-keys for everything (provided you have one of those nifty overlays that show you all the key-commands).
- d--b 13y agooh the worst part is the number formatting. In French, for instance '.' and ',' are reversed. Excel in French then thinks 10,000 is 10. So Value("10,000") is different from Valeur("10,000"). Of course strings do not get translated when changing locale...