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Why would you remove a standard font from your system?
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Because I'm sick of the ugly thing being the default font for everything ms.
I'll take copies of Arial and rename them to calibri.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Not 100% sure on this but can't you just set that in your theme?
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You'd still have to change it individually for all the shapes.
And a "theme" isn't a professional tool, is it? It's a toy for kiddies to play with on their computers, and it includes things that you either can't or don't want to export to other computers.
Visio has templates, stencils, etc. -- all pro tools, which can be used in a professional document-management environment, and all getting more and more buggered up with every release.
When they release a stencil full of emojis, I'll start looking for other alternatives.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You can change the default font, you know.  
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In Word, you can, by using templates only, but not other places, like visio.
Well, you can, I suppose, if you set the font for a file before adding anything, and then go to every shape you have and edit the font in them -- but not only is that amount of work not an option, but it stands a good chance of being reverted every time there's even a minor update.
Even saving templates with fonts set doesn't help; the default keeps changing to that ugly, horrible crapibri.
It used to be that you could export an ini file, and edit the font in there (but who needed to? It was already Arial). I spent over an hour, today, looking for that option, but it ain't there.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quick search found this: Changing the default font from Calibri back to Arial (or other font)[^]
don't know if this helps or not. Hope so.
I do think it is might sucky of MS not to have an easier way to do this, but I am not surprised.
Edit: the link I provided is shite. I don't call mucking with registry settings a viable solution. Sorry. You are on your own. 
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"Click to select the Put all settings in Windows registry check box"
Oh, for God's sake!
I was looking for "Put all settings in an ini file"! (I even extracted all strings from the exe, to search for it)
Mind, i shouldn't have missed it. It's tucked away at the bottom of the Advanced page, but it's not exactly hidden.
I've got no problem working with the registry; it's almost a daily thing, for me.
But let's hope it works, and I don't still have to edit hundreds of shapes.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Ha! It worked! You're a bloody genius!
It wasn't where the article says it is, in the registry, but the article's for v.2002, and I'm using v.2016 (wishing that I was using 2002!)
I'll try it out a bit more hardcore when I'm at work, tomorrow.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: calibri
I read that Colibri at first, and was wondering what you removed...
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It does give one the desire to embark on matters colonic.
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OriginalGriff's post about English got me thinking about some of my favorite Southern phrases. So I thought I would ask what are some expressions that are common where you are from and what do they mean.
For example: I ain't hit a lick at a snake all day long.
Meaning: I've been extremely lazy today and haven't accomplished anything.
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When I moved to the south, "Get your ducks in a row" was one that seemed really weird. It means to get organized.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I was going to "knock windows out of walls" today ... meaning I'd intended to do a lot of stuff and have failed in that intention.
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"That sucks bigger'n a bucket o' ticks."
"Busier than a one-legged man in a butt-kickin' contest."
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: "Busier than a one-legged man in a butt-kickin' contest."
I always liked this one.
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Heard while I was stateside in a bar - not sure if it was a colloquialism but it made me spray my drink..
"Oh man, my head feels rougher than a bear turd rolled in fish hooks".
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I was reading the article Where The Web Is Going In 2016[^] and it discusses how the prototype.contains standard method was renamed .includes in order to not break a bunch of sites using the old MooTools library. MooTools defines its own contains so changing this method's implementation would break 6.5% of the web. Evidently.
To me this is a bad, bad case of painting yourself into a corner. If you're going to keep not defining new language constructs because a library de jour once used it then you're going to run out of names.
Wouldn't it be more sensible to start by defining a pattern by which new language versions could be introduced into the web without breaking old sites? I dunno - something like what we actually already have:
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</script>
That way if you want to use new features you explicitly use them. If you don't name your poison then you get the default. It won't solve version issues, but it would allow a path forward and a reasonable path to deprecation.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I agree.
And in this particular case, I further argue that "includes" and "contains" and not synomyms -- sort of like the "search" versus "find" debate.
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It was bad enough that non-standard extensions made their impact on naming process - now this?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I don't think the web will be better with badly molded javascript language. No versioning, js has to be redesigned from ground up. That's final!
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Chris Maunder wrote: MooTools defines its own contains so changing this method's implementation would break 6.5% of the web.
So, our implementations are now dictated by the errors of others? 
Anything built on top of JavaScript will still be JavaScript.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Off-topic.
Hey, we are still waiting for the IOT competition announcement. Thought it was going to be today?
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Nish Nishant wrote: Hey, we are still waiting for the IOT competition announcement
Give it about another half hour 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Thanks
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