Cont: Dear Users… (A thread for Sysadmin, Technical Support, and Help Desk people) Part 11

[TragicMonkey]

But does anyone know what a card catalogue is these days? Or a Rolodex? Or cuneiform tablets?

A Rolodex of cuneiform tablets would be very loud, wouldn't it?

My favorite idea for a database is to write each piece of information on an index card then tape it to an animal's stomach and set it loose in the wild. Anybody wants data they're going to have to really work for it. Especially the eagle and shark fields.

 

[rdaneel]

A Bunch of Rocks

 

[catsmate]

Most enterprises have their own, which were originally developed decades ago by people who didn't know what they were doing.

Oh **** yes. Idiots with delusions.

But does anyone know what a card catalogue is these days? Or a Rolodex? Or cuneiform tablets?

I once created a database (in Access) that was used to print labels that were stuck on index cards.

 

[Norman Alexander]

This stuff has been around a while: Memex

 

[novaphile]

But does anyone know what a card catalogue is these days? Or a Rolodex? Or cuneiform tablets?

I'm pretty sure that people still know what business cards are...

(And diaries)

 

[arthwollipot]

FFS! It's 2023. It's beyond time people understood what the "subject" field in an email was for.

There's another job in our queue where someone tried to type up their whole issue in the Subject field, and it was, of course, truncated so we don't know what's actually going on.

 

[arthwollipot]

Also, remember I mentioned our Cyberark system which is supposed to manage all of our elevated access permissions and passwords? It's down right now, which is making it difficult to do the New Starter Requests for Monday because that process requires elevation several times.

There are workarounds, but it's hard to describe how badly this affects my (probably) autistic and highly process-dependent brain. I'm literally getting cripplingly confused at every step. Fortunately I have coping strategies in place - I'm referring to my checklist for literally everything.

Finally, does anyone know how to tell Excel 365 to paste only the value when using Ctrl-V? NOTE: I don't want to use Ctrl-Shift-V - that would require changing my muscle memory. I have checked File - Options - Advanced, and none of the options change the default pasting behaviour. I've found one ******** source that says to use a macro (**** that).

No, don't bother. I'm using ******* Notepad instead.

 

[Wudang]

Lots of answers here which boil down to No.
https://superuser.com/questions/683258/excel-copy-paste-always-match-destination-formatting

Nearest options are a quick access button or doing " control-v, ctrl, v" Both of which would mess with muscle memory.

 

[arthwollipot]

Okay, so remember this?

My boss just confirmed that I'll be buying myself a house this Christmas.

 

[Wudang]

Nice!

 

[Blue Mountain]

FFS! It's 2023. It's beyond time people understood what the "subject" field in an email was for.

There's another job in our queue where someone tried to type up their whole issue in the Subject field, and it was, of course, truncated so we don't know what's actually going on.

I had the opposite problem in one job. The office manager, otherwise a capable and intelligent person, always sent out emails with one word subject lines like "Problem" or "Dec 26."

 

[arthwollipot]

I had the opposite problem in one job. The office manager, otherwise a capable and intelligent person, always sent out emails with one word subject lines like "Problem" or "Dec 26."

Oh, we definitely get those, too.

 

[Norman Alexander]

Okay, so remember this?

My boss just confirmed that I'll be buying myself a house this Christmas.

A real one or a Barbie one?

 

[Norman Alexander]

Also, remember I mentioned our Cyberark system which is supposed to manage all of our elevated access permissions and passwords? It's down right now, which is making it difficult to do the New Starter Requests for Monday because that process requires elevation several times.

There are workarounds, but it's hard to describe how badly this affects my (probably) autistic and highly process-dependent brain. I'm literally getting cripplingly confused at every step. Fortunately I have coping strategies in place - I'm referring to my checklist for literally everything.

Finally, does anyone know how to tell Excel 365 to paste only the value when using Ctrl-V? NOTE: I don't want to use Ctrl-Shift-V - that would require changing my muscle memory. I have checked File - Options - Advanced, and none of the options change the default pasting behaviour. I've found one ******** source that says to use a macro (**** that).

No, don't bother. I'm using ******* Notepad instead.

Umm...right-click, then the paste button you want has "123" in tiny text on the icon.

 

[arthwollipot]

Umm...right-click, then the paste button you want has "123" in tiny text on the icon.

Again, I don't want to upset my muscle memory. I want Ctrl-V to do what it is supposed to do, which is paste only what I want it to. And it should know what I want without my having to tell it every time. That's what "default behaviour" means.

Also this is one of those situations where I'm alt-tabbing and using my keyboard, so taking my hand off my keyboard to mouse over and right click actually takes longer.

 

[arthwollipot]

A real one or a Barbie one?

Probably only a Barbie one, unfortunately. I'll find out exactly how much I'm going to get in September, and then actually get it in October. I'm expecting a substantial amount, but not an excessive amount.

 

[Norman Alexander]

Again, I don't want to upset my muscle memory. I want Ctrl-V to do what it is supposed to do, which is paste only what I want it to. And it should know what I want without my having to tell it every time. That's what "default behaviour" means.

Also this is one of those situations where I'm alt-tabbing and using my keyboard, so taking my hand off my keyboard to mouse over and right click actually takes longer.

Don't know if this helps, but apparently you can restore the "previous" shortcut behaviour.

https://insider.microsoft365.com/ja-jp/blog/paste-text-only-shortcut-in-word

 

[arthwollipot]

Don't know if this helps, but apparently you can restore the "previous" shortcut behaviour.

https://insider.microsoft365.com/ja-jp/blog/paste-text-only-shortcut-in-word

That article works for Word, sure.

It's okay. I don't need a solution any more. I worked around the problem.

 

[catsmate]

This stuff has been around a while: Memex

Ah, I remember it's appearances in the Laundry books.

 

[catsmate]

Also, remember I mentioned our Cyberark system which is supposed to manage all of our elevated access permissions and passwords? It's down right now, which is making it difficult to do the New Starter Requests for Monday because that process requires elevation several times.

There are workarounds, but it's hard to describe how badly this affects my (probably) autistic and highly process-dependent brain. I'm literally getting cripplingly confused at every step. Fortunately I have coping strategies in place - I'm referring to my checklist for literally everything.

Finally, does anyone know how to tell Excel 365 to paste only the value when using Ctrl-V? NOTE: I don't want to use Ctrl-Shift-V - that would require changing my muscle memory. I have checked File - Options - Advanced, and none of the options change the default pasting behaviour. I've found one ******** source that says to use a macro (**** that).

No, don't bother. I'm using ******* Notepad instead.

I don't have O365 to hand, I'm on #2 tablet, but IIRR it's in Options under Advanced. There should be an Edit (?) option where you can select a few options, including somehing like "Paste values".