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Ctrl-F is usually standard for find
Ctrl-H is usually standard for find and replace.
Visual Studio for example, has been this way forever.
If anything, MS should be doing the above in word.
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Wait 'til you swap languages.
Mappings for shortcut keys will change.
If I do Ctrl-f I'll get Bold text.
But best of all, formulas in Excel are translated. If I create an excel sheet in Swedish with formulas in it, I can't send it to you and expect it to work.
<edit>Actually, it seems like I can.
Question: Has it changed or was it always like that?
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modified 26-Oct-20 13:04pm.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: I can't send it to you and expect it to work
I am not entirely sure that's true: Excel files open with german function names on a german system and french function names on a french system. The very same excel files.
I never really understood the need of translating the function though...
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I have a multi language version installed, so I had to test it and you're right.
But I have memories of when it didn't work.
Wonder when that changed. Or am I possibly more senile than I thought. 
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Rage wrote: I never really understood the need of translating the function though...
It's so that Jacques and Helmut can write formulas in Excel even if they don't speak english. 
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: If I do Ctrl-f I'll get Bold text.
But best of all, formulas in Excel are translated. If I create an excel sheet in Swedish with formulas in it, I can't send it to you and expect it to work.
That really isn't great. Never thought of that before.
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For me CTRL+H has been replace for a long time.
PSPad, Notepad++ and other thrid products had it too.
And the "Replace" contains the "Find next" since ages too.
Please not that I am not defending MS at all.
As long as they don't change the F3" as the Search next... I am fine
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If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Nelek wrote: Please not that I am not defending MS at all.
It's fine I"m not anti-Microsoft anyways. I don't mind if anyone wants to defend them.
I just can't believe CTRL-F effectively does nothing now. After all these years. 
Nelek wrote: As long as they don't change the F3" as the Search next... I am fine
Maybe you are being funny. I'm not sure. But from what I can tell MS-Word does not support F3 as the find next either.
Also, CTRL-H being the find replace is fine it's just that I used to get to it by doing CTRL-F and then altering the dialog box. Now CTRL-F seems to do nothing and I just don't understand that.
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DerekT-P wrote: F3 seemed at the time to be a truly global standard; that and F1 for help
I agree. And yes, F1 meant HELP.  I remember it was that way on PCs too.
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I quite like the Navigation feature - it's kinda like Search-on-steroids when you are used to it. It shows all the instances in a single place, so you don't have to lose where you are in a big document just to check something matches, or has been said already for example.
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I have been using Libre Office, all the way back since October 2019. I never had such problemz.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Ctrl + H is find and replace as far as I know...
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There must be some: What is Fortran for .NET?[^]
If there wasn't, that wouldn't exist!
I have to admit though, it wouldn't be my first-choice language any more.
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OriginalGriff wrote: If there wasn't, that wouldn't exist!
Yeah, that's interesting.
OriginalGriff wrote: it wouldn't be my first-choice language any more.
That's exactly what I was thinking too. Not sure why it would be something someone would choose to begin a project with. I mean, in many ways this language is tied to older systems right? Unless you're running those older systems you probably aren't going to choose it, I would think.
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FORTRAN is still popular in numerical computing. LAPACK is probably one of best known FORTRAN libraries that is still in active development. I understand that it is also a good fit for parallel computing with implementations for OpenMP and MPI.
Not everything that's old is necessarily bad (see wine); not everything that's old is necessarily obsolete (see self) .
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Mircea Neacsu wrote: Not everything that's old is necessarily bad (see wine); not everything that's old is necessarily obsolete (see self)
I agree. A lot of the old things are actually the best (various works of art, etc).
There must be a market out there somewhere. Just wondering how large it is and who is doing Fortran work. 
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Meteorologists.
My daughter started college back in 2006 to be a meteorologist. I went with her to her advisor's office when she signed up for her 1st semester classes. While there I saw several Fortran programming books on his bookshelf. At the end of the meeting I asked about them. He said all the major meteorological models are written in Fortran so if you're going to play with the models you're going to play in Fortran. I would have thought that they would have been modernized as time went on, but he said they are so huge and complex with so many assumptions coded into them that the task of updating/rewriting is so daunting it never gets past the proposal stage.
Unless, of course, things have changed in the last 15 years.
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Very interesting, thanks for sharing.
FreedMalloc wrote: but he said they are so huge and complex with so many assumptions coded into them that the task of updating/rewriting is so daunting it never gets past the proposal stage.
This strikes me in two (opposite) ways at the same time:
1. If it ain't broke, don't fix it
2. I wonder if there might be new weather science and better algorithms that might create better models than in the past?
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Fortran is still being updated (the most recent ISO Standard dates from 2018). Given that participation in the Standard bodies is voluntary, I doubt anyone would waste much time on a "fossil language". The kind of people with the knowledge and experience to set standards are usually busy people, after all.
Having said that, I doubt that Fortran has anywhere near the same market share that it did in the late '50s.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: I doubt that Fortran has anywhere near the same market share that it did in the late '50s
Which may explain why some people have plenty of time to sit on standards committees ... 
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Having said that, I doubt that Fortran has anywhere near the same market share that it did in the late '50s.
Definitely agree. That's why I'm wondering if there is anyone out there (in CP-land) who is using it. Also, I wonder how old they are. Because I'm old and I've never even used Fortran.
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Probably depends on your definition of old: I'm 64 and in the '70-es when I learned programming, FORTRAN was the first thing I ran into. Could have been worse and turned to COBOL (the dark side of programming) .
Haven't used it for 3 or 4 decades but I still have a compiler sitting somewhere on my drives. Not too long ago had to re-implement a FORTRAN in C++ so a passing familiarity with the language was useful.
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