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markrlondon24-Jul-21 1:09

markrlondon

24-Jul-21 1:09

Oh yes, this, this.

It drives me nuts when people utterly miss information that I ensured was clearly available to them. It happens in many scenarios.

enhzflep24-Jul-21 17:31

enhzflep

24-Jul-21 17:31

Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
Read. The. ing. Text. A**hole.

pkfox24-Jul-21 0:28

pkfox

24-Jul-21 0:28

I don't know where you get your patience from - some of them don't deserve help.

"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

Richard MacCutchan24-Jul-21 0:53

Richard MacCutchan

24-Jul-21 0:53

pkfox wrote:
I don't know where you get your patience from

Following the rules as laid down by @Chris-Maunder. But I do scream a lot offline Mad | :mad:

Office 365 WTF

Chris Maunder23-Jul-21 5:36

Chris Maunder

23-Jul-21 5:36

Can someone explain why, within a web interface, Office365 allows collaborative edits on Word and Excel but not plain, simple text files?

(Well, you can have two people edit at the same time, but you overwrite each other's work)

cheers
Chris Maunder

musefan23-Jul-21 6:13

musefan

23-Jul-21 6:13

Well, and I am guessing...

Excel seems simple. You give control of a cell (or range of cells) to a user, they can edit it, and not worry about conflicted a different cell that someone else is working on.

Word. I expect it's similar. The document likely tracks "ranges" (sections, paragraphs, pages, whatever...) individually, so again you can determine who is working on what part and ensure it doesn't conflict somebody else working on a different part.

A simple text file... well that's basically just one single field/cell/range. So you can't easily apply the same rules that you have done for Excel/Word.

Chris Maunder23-Jul-21 7:01

Chris Maunder

23-Jul-21 7:01

I don't buy it. I've seen simpler things elsewhere, and if it needed to worry about breaking the content up into bite sized pieces then it can do it line by line.

cheers
Chris Maunder

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Gerry Schmitz23-Jul-21 6:56

Gerry Schmitz

23-Jul-21 6:56

It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food

Chris Maunder23-Jul-21 7:00

Chris Maunder

23-Jul-21 7:00

Or you can just rename the .txt to .doc, load it up and Word does it all for you Wink | ;)

cheers
Chris Maunder

Thought of the Day

OriginalGriff23-Jul-21 4:23

OriginalGriff

23-Jul-21 4:23

Developers guide to Married life:

CSS

#wife{right: 100%; margin: 0;}

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Mike Hankey23-Jul-21 4:49

Mike Hankey

23-Jul-21 4:49

I just bought1 a book; Understanding women edition 9,000,000 and it's already obsolete.

The less you need, the more you have.

Why is there a "Highway to Hell" and only a "Stairway to Heaven"? A prediction of the expected traffic load?

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W∴ Balboos, GHB23-Jul-21 5:23

W∴ Balboos, GHB

23-Jul-21 5:23

Should you not implement your #wife style:

CSS

body.wife {
            visibility:hidden;
            font-family:curse-ive;
}
Caused by:

<b>husband</b>

Ravings en masse^
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Daniel Pfeffer23-Jul-21 5:30

Daniel Pfeffer

23-Jul-21 5:30

C++

volatile int wife;
...
while (wife == happy)
    /* life is good*/
}

/* must never reach here! */
assert (false);

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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FreedMalloc23-Jul-21 5:50

FreedMalloc

23-Jul-21 5:50

After 40+ years of marriage I believe I can vouch for the veracity of the 50/50/80 rule, which states:

If you have a 50/50 chance of choosing the correct option, 80% of the time you'll get it wrong.

Slow Eddie23-Jul-21 10:42

Slow Eddie

23-Jul-21 10:42

I always know when I've won an argument. Herself changes the subject.

The good outweighs the bad by the slimmest of margins.

DerekT-P24-Jul-21 9:55

DerekT-P

24-Jul-21 9:55

at the risk of being picky, whilst accurate, this means you'll never see her...