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g_p_l wrote: I love consistency
Indecision is the key to flexibility, you know?
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Figures that a savant would have something to do with it.
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It's worse than that.
Yeah, Ctrl + F is for Forward but only if you are just reading a mail.
If you are replying to it (so in edit mode) then Ctrl + F is Find.
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread
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Well, no one uses Ctrl-H to backspace anymore, becuase because we always type perfectly. Since it is now available...
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What do you mean, no one uses ^H anymore? Maybe not to backspace, but as a printable character to tell idio^H^H^H^H people what they really think.
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Yeah. Sadly, it only works on people who've been around for a while.
Remember when you could drive people crazy by sending a Ctrl-G with NET SEND. and they'd try to figure out why their computer kept DINGing at them?
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GenJerDan wrote: Remember when you could drive people crazy by sending a Ctrl-G with NET SEND I never did that!
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They're just mimicking Eclipse, which uses CTRL-H for it's search.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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What, because H(unt makes more sense?
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Current year and not using grep like a boss
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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.
Real programmers use butterflies
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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?
</edit>
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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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.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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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
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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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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