Another piece of MS Office Brilliance
-
Numbered lists have annoyed me in office for years, they seem to do all sorts of unpredictable things. To the extent I prefer not to use them and manually number things. Just got a document from an acceptance tester. He included a numbered list, with a number (identifier) in the first "word" of one item in the list. Like this (underscore is my text, 14. is the numbered item in the list) 14.
472995more text here. So I thought "I'll copy that ID and paste it into a query window". My selection exactly matched the underlined portion of text above. Imagine my joy when a copy/paste into SQL window (or anything else) yields... 14. 472995 So, magically, the first word of a paragraph invisibly carries along the list item number. Genius."If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.
-
Numbered lists have annoyed me in office for years, they seem to do all sorts of unpredictable things. To the extent I prefer not to use them and manually number things. Just got a document from an acceptance tester. He included a numbered list, with a number (identifier) in the first "word" of one item in the list. Like this (underscore is my text, 14. is the numbered item in the list) 14.
472995more text here. So I thought "I'll copy that ID and paste it into a query window". My selection exactly matched the underlined portion of text above. Imagine my joy when a copy/paste into SQL window (or anything else) yields... 14. 472995 So, magically, the first word of a paragraph invisibly carries along the list item number. Genius."If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.
Yes, annoying that. Nobody seems to get this right.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein -
Numbered lists have annoyed me in office for years, they seem to do all sorts of unpredictable things. To the extent I prefer not to use them and manually number things. Just got a document from an acceptance tester. He included a numbered list, with a number (identifier) in the first "word" of one item in the list. Like this (underscore is my text, 14. is the numbered item in the list) 14.
472995more text here. So I thought "I'll copy that ID and paste it into a query window". My selection exactly matched the underlined portion of text above. Imagine my joy when a copy/paste into SQL window (or anything else) yields... 14. 472995 So, magically, the first word of a paragraph invisibly carries along the list item number. Genius."If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.
I am right now, experiencing some aggravation with Word 2013...I ask you to do one simple thing, spellcheck a word for me!..and you fool me, for just a few seconds, into thinking that my spelling skills (for words I can never seem to get right!) had magically improved! 'Kewl! No squiggly line...but, it still doesn't look right'...so intentionally misspell (even cp corrected an attempted pun) something as a test...no squiggly lines? :confused: Check everywhere in the ribbon for spellcheck, (which should be on auto according to options) finally find it and it tells me that I'm 'good to go'! OK, maybe I have to put the intentionally misspelled words into sentences for it to work? Nope! 15 minutes later, and I'm going back to Word 2007 which just works! :mad:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
-
Numbered lists have annoyed me in office for years, they seem to do all sorts of unpredictable things. To the extent I prefer not to use them and manually number things. Just got a document from an acceptance tester. He included a numbered list, with a number (identifier) in the first "word" of one item in the list. Like this (underscore is my text, 14. is the numbered item in the list) 14.
472995more text here. So I thought "I'll copy that ID and paste it into a query window". My selection exactly matched the underlined portion of text above. Imagine my joy when a copy/paste into SQL window (or anything else) yields... 14. 472995 So, magically, the first word of a paragraph invisibly carries along the list item number. Genius."If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.
Last week I wanted to copy item 4 of a list into an email -- nope, as soon as I paste it it becomes item 1. :mad:
-
Last week I wanted to copy item 4 of a list into an email -- nope, as soon as I paste it it becomes item 1. :mad:
Of course it does, when you paste it onto a brand new page it is the only item in the new list so naturally it becomes 1. You just can’t argue with MS logic which knows how you should be doing things. :doh: :sigh:
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
-
Of course it does, when you paste it onto a brand new page it is the only item in the new list so naturally it becomes 1. You just can’t argue with MS logic which knows how you should be doing things. :doh: :sigh:
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
When the sixteenth President is alone in a room he doesn't become the first President. :rolleyes:
-
When the sixteenth President is alone in a room he doesn't become the first President. :rolleyes:
-
Last week I wanted to copy item 4 of a list into an email -- nope, as soon as I paste it it becomes item 1. :mad:
-
When the sixteenth President is alone in a room he doesn't become the first President. :rolleyes:
Ah, but he is the first president in the room since he last checked.. Come on Microsoft, can't you see I have the right stuff to be CEO? Just mail me! :laugh:
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.