SpreadEveryone: The Fetchland Excel wire

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Neal May 2019 3:58pm, 22 May 2019 44 posts	0 Neal HG: it's the keyboard shortcuts being different between the two that gets me more than anything else. I've used different sets of programs for enough different things that I'm reasonably happy with things being "exactly the same but different".
larkim May 2019 4:00pm, 22 May 2019 7,565 posts	0 larkim Google sheets is also a good free option!
Neal May 2019 4:01pm, 22 May 2019 45 posts	0 Neal oum: That would apply to about half of the spreadsheets I've used.
oumaumau May 2019 4:27pm, 22 May 2019 1,112 posts	0 oumaumau Indeed near, but it's the setup time vs just get it done, quick and dirty-like
oumaumau May 2019 4:27pm, 22 May 2019 1,113 posts	0 oumaumau Neil. ^ Shouldn't fetch on phone..
GlennR Jun 2019 4:11pm, 25 Jun 2019 43,226 posts	0 GlennR Some interesting stuff about the horrors of date formatting: theregister.co.uk
paul the builder Jun 2019 5:11pm, 25 Jun 2019 6,578 posts	0 paul the builder "The Julian date code is used by our supplier for internal traceability purposes. The standard best before date is printed on the outside of the main packaging." I put that down to a case of dim customer, to be honest. If you know where to look, you can find numbers like that, very often in exactly that format, on an awful lot of stuff.
um Jun 2019 5:20pm, 25 Jun 2019 1,070 posts	0 um But have you worked out the latest Tesco fruit & veg date code? Now they deliberately don't put real dates on. eg the cucumbers on Monday were numbered between 170 and 172 ... is that pack date, Julian 'best before date' (worrying if so) or what? (or do I still just search for the highest number, regardless?)
GlennR Jun 2019 5:53pm, 25 Jun 2019 43,231 posts	0 GlennR Um, that is a deliberate policy by a number of supermarkets so customers don’t throw away fruit and veg unnecessarily.
GregP Jul 2019 9:42am, 25 Jul 2019 113,525 posts	0 GregP This could easily go on the 'bang your head here' thread but... Many of us have argued that people should need some sort of accreditation before they are allowed access to the 'reply all' button on email systems, yes? Can we PLEASE extend this to cover the 'merge cells' button in Excel? Thank you.