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I wish there was a way of making that the default behavior, I spent so much time removing random formatting that people have inserted into excel documents.

CoPilot likes to come in and tell me about all of the errors in the spreadsheet, but it's really clunky and slow so it's often easier to just fix them manually, it never fixes formatting issues the stupid thing.

And then ctrl-z a bunch of times because fuckfuckfuck

It's also just a Windows issue because it doesn't recognize that I pressed control c sometimes

On Mac, iterm has a highlight to copy feature that I love and miss when I have to use someone else's mac

it pisses me off so much. literally every month some new feature/bug is added to critical software that we use and which results in clearly quantifiable wasted time, money, and stress

the ctrl+c issue alone has cost the company a few thousand dollars in the past year from the few cases I can think of off the top of my head. there's a bit of software that we use where we need to enter the information that exists in one field into another field. obviously copy paste is the way to do this, it's simple and it should work, right? except the program is built on Access and has its own problems on top of Windows fucking everything up. so what happens is people paste the previous copy into the new field instead of the newly-attemped copy. and that results in people spending hundreds of dollars to order the wrong part. bc the fucking software is garbage to interact with.

You mean ywp? You don't need visual mode for a single motion lol

No. This is the dumbest UX decision anyone has ever made, and I will die on this hill. The keyboard is for text, and the mouse is used for navigation. Anything else, is a bastardization dreamt up by mad men.

It wasn't always like this.

I swear every version of Windows between 3.11 and XP was 100% reliable. Then it just started... slipping.

What's weird is that it often works on the second try.

In my case it's mostly that browsers and as such also electron Apps unfocus textboxes when the window is unfocused for seemingly no reason, sometimes without giving visual indication meaning that I need to reselect it to copy it.

Because your company makes you use Azure Virtual Desktop to connect to a VM and AVD's clipboard handling is as unreliable as anything else from Microsoft?

(Microsoft bullshit survival tip: You can start a new instance of Excel by right clicking it's icon and, while holding alt the whole time, selecting something to open ("New workbook" or w/e shows up on the right click menu this week...). This separates the action history, so ctrl+z no longer jumps between workbooks.)

"These two columns... I see what you're doing here, I'll just continue that formula down ok?"

Great! How about this table? Can we copy this bit here and move it to-

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