Comments on: Clipboard Toolbar

By: John Walkenbach

John Walkenbach — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:17:00 +0000

The Office Clipboard COULD be useful, but the main problem is that it can’t store formulas. Copy a range of formulas, and paste them elsewhere using the Office Clipboard, and you get values only.

By: Billkamm

Billkamm — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:04:00 +0000

I miss Clippy

BRING BACK CLIPPY!

By: Doug Glancy

Doug Glancy — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:16:00 +0000

Dick, I like the Office Clipboard in 2003. I find it easy to keep off until I want it and more functional when it's on, although it is enormous. I'm sure in XL12 it will be so smart it will paste stuff without even having to ask you!

John, another assignment, when will I sleep?

By: Jazzer

Jazzer — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:44:00 +0000

And one other annoying thing is the autoscaling of the fonts in the charts. Thanks to Jon Peltier, its easy to "fix"

http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/FixFonts.html

- Asser

By: John Walkenbach

John Walkenbach — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 02:39:00 +0000

Next week’s assignment…

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:04:00 +0000

Sounds like someone should write a little routine that does all this setup stuff automatically. What would really be cool would be to have a single customized dialog box with all these knobs and switches in one place. Then you could easily user-select what you did and didn’t want to do. I really like that registry adjustment for eliminating the clipboard. That should be in there for sure.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:45:00 +0000

"Whoever thought of key change because you held the shift key down too long or pressed it too many times should be hung at dawn from the nearest yard arm."

This is part of Windows' Accessibility Options, which you can turn off in the control panel.

"The window key and menu keys are equally a pain in the @#$@@#."

Do you hit them by accident? I find them very useful.

By: doco

doco — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:02:00 +0000

There are several annoyances like that.

Office Assistant - like to kill that worthless @#$@#@#

Whoever thought of key change because you held the shift key down too long or pressed it too many times should be hung at dawn from the nearest yard arm.

The window key and menu keys are equally a pain in the @#$@@#.

I am sure there are more but those are the top three for sure.