Error Messages Written By Devs (MS Office)
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Just had this error / warning message pop-up in MS Word. I don't believe I attempted to save or close the document in question. I actually had opened another document and closed it while this one was open. https://i.stack.imgur.com/8ekVQ.png[^]
MS Word said:
If you click "Don't Save", a recent copy of this file will be temporarily available.
:confused::confused: "Temporarily available??" When will it be consistently available? :confused::confused: What!?! What does any of that mean? :confused: "A recent copy"... ??? :confused: No idea. There are only 3 buttons so I'm flipping a coin to determine which one to click. :rolleyes: UPDATE Wait...isn't [Don't Save] the same thing as [Cancel]?? :confused:
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Just had this error / warning message pop-up in MS Word. I don't believe I attempted to save or close the document in question. I actually had opened another document and closed it while this one was open. https://i.stack.imgur.com/8ekVQ.png[^]
MS Word said:
If you click "Don't Save", a recent copy of this file will be temporarily available.
:confused::confused: "Temporarily available??" When will it be consistently available? :confused::confused: What!?! What does any of that mean? :confused: "A recent copy"... ??? :confused: No idea. There are only 3 buttons so I'm flipping a coin to determine which one to click. :rolleyes: UPDATE Wait...isn't [Don't Save] the same thing as [Cancel]?? :confused:
Welcome to the new and improved Microsoft. :laugh:
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Just had this error / warning message pop-up in MS Word. I don't believe I attempted to save or close the document in question. I actually had opened another document and closed it while this one was open. https://i.stack.imgur.com/8ekVQ.png[^]
MS Word said:
If you click "Don't Save", a recent copy of this file will be temporarily available.
:confused::confused: "Temporarily available??" When will it be consistently available? :confused::confused: What!?! What does any of that mean? :confused: "A recent copy"... ??? :confused: No idea. There are only 3 buttons so I'm flipping a coin to determine which one to click. :rolleyes: UPDATE Wait...isn't [Don't Save] the same thing as [Cancel]?? :confused:
1. Save will save it. 2. Don't save will not save your changes but a temp copy is still available. 3. Cancel closes the dialog and takes you back to your document.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other. Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Welcome to the new and improved Microsoft. :laugh:
As brought to you by the highly precise minds which declared only a single space after a period instead of a double space.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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1. Save will save it. 2. Don't save will not save your changes but a temp copy is still available. 3. Cancel closes the dialog and takes you back to your document.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other. Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
ZurdoDev wrote:
1. Save will save it. 2. Don't save will not save your changes but a temp copy is still available. 3. Cancel closes the dialog and takes you back to your document.
Sheesh... This clarity really ruins the joy I was getting from harshing on MS error messages. :sigh: :laugh: :laugh: Well, I can always post something about the latest Win10 update. :rolleyes:
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Just had this error / warning message pop-up in MS Word. I don't believe I attempted to save or close the document in question. I actually had opened another document and closed it while this one was open. https://i.stack.imgur.com/8ekVQ.png[^]
MS Word said:
If you click "Don't Save", a recent copy of this file will be temporarily available.
:confused::confused: "Temporarily available??" When will it be consistently available? :confused::confused: What!?! What does any of that mean? :confused: "A recent copy"... ??? :confused: No idea. There are only 3 buttons so I'm flipping a coin to determine which one to click. :rolleyes: UPDATE Wait...isn't [Don't Save] the same thing as [Cancel]?? :confused:
You failed to notice the shiny new icon?
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Just had this error / warning message pop-up in MS Word. I don't believe I attempted to save or close the document in question. I actually had opened another document and closed it while this one was open. https://i.stack.imgur.com/8ekVQ.png[^]
MS Word said:
If you click "Don't Save", a recent copy of this file will be temporarily available.
:confused::confused: "Temporarily available??" When will it be consistently available? :confused::confused: What!?! What does any of that mean? :confused: "A recent copy"... ??? :confused: No idea. There are only 3 buttons so I'm flipping a coin to determine which one to click. :rolleyes: UPDATE Wait...isn't [Don't Save] the same thing as [Cancel]?? :confused:
Back in 1990 or so, I wrote an app that used resource strings for error messages. I had a "catch-all" error message that read, "Shut 'er down Scotty, the system's suckin' mud!". This error message was displayed whenever the returned error code didn't have an associated error message. One day, a customer called, asking what that message meant. Everyone had a good laugh, but I had to track down the missing error code...
".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 -
Welcome to the new and improved Microsoft. :laugh:
Mickeysoft... Did they ever mention making everything as annoying and distracting as possible in their design guides?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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ZurdoDev wrote:
1. Save will save it. 2. Don't save will not save your changes but a temp copy is still available. 3. Cancel closes the dialog and takes you back to your document.
Sheesh... This clarity really ruins the joy I was getting from harshing on MS error messages. :sigh: :laugh: :laugh: Well, I can always post something about the latest Win10 update. :rolleyes:
raddevus wrote:
Well, I can always post something about the latest Win10 update.
I wouldn't bet... that's getting harder everyday... ;P :laugh:
M.D.V. ;) 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 Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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As brought to you by the highly precise minds which declared only a single space after a period instead of a double space.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
I read about that. Didn't even know it was a thing. I've never seen anyone intentionally use a double space in my life, nor heard about it. So if it was a thing I'm with Microsoft on this one :D
Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly
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Just had this error / warning message pop-up in MS Word. I don't believe I attempted to save or close the document in question. I actually had opened another document and closed it while this one was open. https://i.stack.imgur.com/8ekVQ.png[^]
MS Word said:
If you click "Don't Save", a recent copy of this file will be temporarily available.
:confused::confused: "Temporarily available??" When will it be consistently available? :confused::confused: What!?! What does any of that mean? :confused: "A recent copy"... ??? :confused: No idea. There are only 3 buttons so I'm flipping a coin to determine which one to click. :rolleyes: UPDATE Wait...isn't [Don't Save] the same thing as [Cancel]?? :confused:
It is a huge advance. Originally auto-save kicked in only after one saved it's work. So the sane way was to save the document just after starting it. Now Office keeps track of not-saved-yet works in progress, too. Of course it means that works not intended to save (like blackmails) are saved too, so there is a warning. And there is a Learn more link to explain.
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1. Save will save it. 2. Don't save will not save your changes but a temp copy is still available. 3. Cancel closes the dialog and takes you back to your document.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other. Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
If you crash out of Word or your PC crashes, then the 'working copy' is still in a temporary recovery location and when you restart Word it asks if you wish to recover the file. At least, that is the theory. Unless you do what one client that I worked for did ... They set the recovery location to C:\TEMP, which is OK. But, for security reasons, they deleted all contents of C:\TEMP as part of the PC load up (good old C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT).
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As brought to you by the highly precise minds which declared only a single space after a period instead of a double space.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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I read about that. Didn't even know it was a thing. I've never seen anyone intentionally use a double space in my life, nor heard about it. So if it was a thing I'm with Microsoft on this one :D
Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly
I was trained to do two spaces very early on. Two spaces (I did it before this sentence without thinking about it) after the period is in my muscle memory. I imagine there's an age cut-off to this habit.
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I read about that. Didn't even know it was a thing. I've never seen anyone intentionally use a double space in my life, nor heard about it. So if it was a thing I'm with Microsoft on this one :D
Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly
[Must explain...can't...resist...] Developers of a certain age were trained on typewriters to double-space after a sentence end. This helped readers perceive sentence endings when the text was in a single, fixed-width font. If you look at books and newspapers, which are printed in a variable-width font, you don't see extra space after the sentence-ending punctuation. It was the Herculean task of MSWord to retrain a whole generation of typists to handle the newly-available variable-width fonts.
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I was trained to do two spaces very early on. Two spaces (I did it before this sentence without thinking about it) after the period is in my muscle memory. I imagine there's an age cut-off to this habit.
There was a Norwegian standard for layout of typewriter text that demanded two spaces after a full stop. Usually, Norwegian standards are international ones, adopted in Norway as well; I believe this is one of those. I don't remember when this standard was revoked. It was most likely sometime during the 1980s, certainly no earlier. In typewriting classes when I went to school, it certinly was still kicking. Double spaces after full stopp essentially was a (paper) typewriter phenomenon that disappeared when the word processors took over. (Old joke: - Dad, why do they call it a "word processor"? - Well, son ... You have seen what food processors do to food! )
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There was a Norwegian standard for layout of typewriter text that demanded two spaces after a full stop. Usually, Norwegian standards are international ones, adopted in Norway as well; I believe this is one of those. I don't remember when this standard was revoked. It was most likely sometime during the 1980s, certainly no earlier. In typewriting classes when I went to school, it certinly was still kicking. Double spaces after full stopp essentially was a (paper) typewriter phenomenon that disappeared when the word processors took over. (Old joke: - Dad, why do they call it a "word processor"? - Well, son ... You have seen what food processors do to food! )
I distinctly remember having to do it in a typing class (typewriters and word processors) in the mid 90s.
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I read about that. Didn't even know it was a thing. I've never seen anyone intentionally use a double space in my life, nor heard about it. So if it was a thing I'm with Microsoft on this one :D
Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly
In the days before computers and proportional spaced typewriters it was the convention to leave two spaces after a period. This was to mimic the practice that typesetters used of leaving a bigger space after a period than between words. SO literally millions of people learned this and as they say, "Old habits die hard."
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I read about that. Didn't even know it was a thing. I've never seen anyone intentionally use a double space in my life, nor heard about it. So if it was a thing I'm with Microsoft on this one :D
Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly
For those of us who learned to type on real typewriters (not even electric typewriters in a public school), that was the standard. Double spaces after periods and colons. Single space after commas, quotes, etc. It was for visual easy. It still is. Of course, the modern standard is to not even use words - U no wh I mean. As our machines get smarter people allow themselves to get stupider
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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We can thank Twitter and proportional fonts for the single vs. double space after a period or other sentence end.
I don't quite understand what you mean. In the days of real typewriters, all fonts were monospace. You put a double space after a period (or colon) for eye-ease. For proportional fonts it's even more important to do so as the space is very narrow.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
