• LiveLM
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      293 days ago

      Microsoft should be charged with war crimes for deciding to localize both Formulas AND keyboard shortcuts across the Office Suite.

      • furry toaster
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        THIS SO MUCH THIS, LOCALIZED SHORTCUTS ARE PAINFUL, I CAN NOT FIND WAYS TO FULLY EXPRESS MY HATRED FOR THEM AS SOMEONE WHO HAD TO USE OFFICIE 365 IN PORTUGUESE also btw mnemonic shortcuts were a mistake

    • @[email protected]
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      3 days ago

      I’m am immigrant in Brazil and have to deal with Portuguese excel almost everyday. At least I know my Python and only use excel to do simple things.

      Edit: all my scripts end with pd.to_excel() tho

      • @[email protected]
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        53 days ago

        Nah, just that WinDev thing.
        On the plus side we have actual holidays and good luck bothering me outside of hours, haha!

        • @[email protected]
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          32 days ago

          On the plus side we have actual holidays and good luck bothering me outside of hours, haha!

          I mean we have that here in Estonia too :P

          • @[email protected]
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            11 day ago

            Haha, fair enough! I’m glad you do!
            If you believed the stereotypes, you’d think we’re the only ones, sometimes :)

            • @[email protected]
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              31 day ago

              I think that’s mostly an American stereotype, I believe Estonia and France and several other European countries get roughly the same amount of paid holidays as well as paid time off. Though apparently you guys also have a 35 hour work week, which I’m jealous of!

    • @[email protected]
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      63 days ago

      Norwegian as well. It’s basically impossible to find the documentation. Translation has somehow changed the order of words, som direct translation of formulaes is not helpful for searches either.

    • @[email protected]
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      23 days ago

      The French are doing what??

      I mean how?
      Specifically, I need to understand it for scientific reasons.

      • @[email protected]
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        52 days ago

        It’s Microsoft. For some insane reason, excel formulas are localized. E.g. German Excel uses “SUMME()” instead of “SUM()”.

        It’s insanely annoying because it sport of makes it more difficult to ask for help (I.e. only Germans might know what SVERWEIS does). And if you manage to find a solution in English, you need to translate it.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 days ago

          Thank you for the explanation, I was aware of that.

          My joke was merely on the level of:

          French fucking Excel formulas

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          12 days ago

          Also the required diacritics use the number row on Czech keyboards so you need a numpad or type numbers with Shift.