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In case that is not clear I HATE EXCEL
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I like it - it's a good spreadsheet from a user POV.
Now take a deep breath and explain why it's a pile of ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) cr@p for you...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'm talking about the 360 browser version, the one foisted on any 360 user.
It is slow - even with my hunt and peck the screen update lags.
It opens in read only as the default
If you want to edit a sheet you need to reopen it again
20mb limit in the browser otherwise you need to open it in the desktop version
To open in the desktop version I need to saveas and reload.
Oh yeah and the f***ing ribbon - what a PITA that is but I can't lay the blame for that on 360 
and then some stupid, hare brained, twat of a power user uses it as a database
and then my BA, who cannot think without a spreadsheet in front of her does all her spec in f***ing EXCEL
and then, because they can't be weaned off excel that become the issue tracking toll
and then I have to use that bitch of a program as the primary data source for my current project.
Did i say I HATE EXCEL and don't tell me it is the culture of the fecking bank it is just WRONG. AAaaahhhh I'm off down the pub.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: I'm talking about the 360 browser version, the one foisted on any 360 user.
So, I have a question.
Suppose your internet connection is down - does that mean you lose all of those 360 applications until further notice? Web based software, in IMCO*, is a problem waiting to happen. Updates, too, whether you want them or not (no waiting for other users to debug for you).
*In My Egotistical Cautious
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In the office the cloud is "on premise" so it doesn't go down, or if it did there are bigger issues that Office 365 to worry about.
On the home system I just use the local copy and it synchs up when the connection is restored. I have no idea what happens if another copy is edited while offline.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Did you try switching it off and back on?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: I'm talking about the 360 browser version, the one foisted on any 360 user.
Totally agree. It's got a long way to go to catch up with the Desktop version. Same goes for the Mac version, although I'm sure that's intentionally gimped so people still favor the Windows one.
Jeremy Falcon
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Bit of a shame though that it uses floating-point calculations throughout, in an application that is heavily used for financial purposes.
Bit of a shame that getting data in/out can lead to numerous issues as it will insist on interpreting strings as dates/numbers/etc. on its own whim.
Bit of a shame that deleting a number of rows at the end of the sheet actually keeps the rows in the sheet, just blank (so the end of the sheet remains where it was).
(and numerous other examples of odd behaviour)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The API is dire beyond the call of doody but it plays nicely enough if you use ClosedXML.
Purely as a spreadsheet, I always preferred SuperCalc back in the day, but Excel's not too shoddy as it goes.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Excel is Love.
Excels loves you.
Relax and open your mind.
Let the positive energies flow through your body.
Feel your true innermost being spring into life.
Let it carry you higher levels of existence.
Excels loves you.
Excel is Love.
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... such stuff as dreams are made on
modified 11-Oct-17 8:31am.
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Oooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmm....CTRL+;
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Quote: Eight weeks into his training, Sharma is mastering the Python programming language, faring well in the assessments, and says the training has changed him in subtle ways.
Read more... [^]
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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I've worked with infosys once and they were all very good at nodding their heads and saying everything was going fine, till the end of the project when it wasn't 
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As usual these things tend to catch you at the end when you outsource incompetency...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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It seems that a big oversight (?) in Windows Explorer is that a lot of folder properties are not available as fields. I'd like to be able to have such properties be able to be displayed (in the Details View mode). It seems that the apps out there like FreeCommander offer the same properties (big help!). Any ideas?
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Total Commander. The one and unique. All derived PutANameHereCommander are only mere clones.
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right-click on the column header display in the details view in Windows Explorer and choose the fields you want to display.
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File Count and Total Size. Coolness!  +5
/ravi
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File Count and Total Size don't work for me. Total Size displays the total drive space used and File Count is just empty.
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Never ceases to amaze me how many people seem never to explore right click, or even the application menus.
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I don't want to have to right-click on every folder and write down the value in a spreadsheet. I'd like for the window to just show it.
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swampwiz wrote: I don't want to have to right-click on every folder and write down the value in a spreadsheet.
Then you need to explore the column properties as someone suggest above, or write your own Explorer extension or stand alone application.
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This is why I have asked if anyone knew a good freeware app to do this. Of course, I could roll my own in WinForms, but what would be the point if an app that does it is COTS?
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Well I was just offering an alternative suggestion. It's up to you which you choose.
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