The filename has an asterisk to signify that the file is unsaved.
Posted on 08/24/2015 10:12:21 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
Helios Software Solutions Text Pad is a serious company, "they make their money the OLD FAHSIONED way, they E.A.R.N. it" (instead of muscling the competition aside using monopolistic practices).
Text Pad shows when a file is unsaved by displaying an asterisk (*) in the title and tab.
The filename has an asterisk to signify that the file is unsaved.
Helios Software Solutions Text Pad is a serious company, "they make their money the OLD FAHSIONED way, they E.A.R.N. it" (instead of muscling the competition aside using monopolistic practices).
Text Pad shows when a file is unsaved by displaying an asterisk (*) in the title and tab.
Your stuff is so great, Microsoft, that you don’t have to do it.
However, you persist in the fiction that you are in pursuit of excellence.
This despite decades of leaving old flaws uncorrected, while you roll out new whistles and bells, stuff that nobody wants, they just want you to fix the bad old stuff, BUT YOU NEVER WILL.
That’s because, at the end of the day, you’re not really geeks, you’re just suits.
Your stuff is so great, Microsoft, that you don’t have to do it.
However, you persist in the fiction that you are in pursuit of excellence.
This despite decades of leaving old flaws uncorrected, while you roll out new whistles and bells, stuff that nobody wants, they just want you to fix the bad old stuff, BUT YOU NEVER WILL.
That’s because, at the end of the day, you’re not really geeks, you’re just suits.
TextPad? to edit source code????
*shudder*
Sounds Hugh and Series
So just use the software you like. Why the rant? Gates stiff you on a bet?
FWIW W10 has been fantastic here. mrs p6 LOVES it. I liked W8-8.1 and even the charms bar but ten has been cool.
Cortana works flawlessly. Saves me time.
I am no Microsoft cheerleader. To this day I use Corel WordPerfect for a variety of reasons. Access is just frustrating and I use FileMaker Pro where I can. However, Excel remains best of breed. OpenOffice is a very distant second in performance and functionality. IBM Lotus 1-2-3 and Corel Quattro Pro have been pretty much ignored for more than a decade. No one has has even tried to challenge Microsoft’s hegemony in this area. When it eventually does happen, it will probably be in the form of a radically different product, like Lotus Improv tried to be.
So, FR is now allowing commercials?
You do know that Office (which includes Excel) auto-saves your work?
So it’s not enough that Excel can auto save at whatever time interval you select, and that it prompts you to save if you try closing the spreadsheet without saving, but you demand that they have an asterisk by the file name so you know that you’ve made changes and not saved the file yet???
Good grief.
Ctrl-S is your friend. Use it often.
Every 10 minutes by default. The problem is that the program will crash short of that time : )
Make the change to 1 minute.
Excel 2010
File> Options> Save
Excel 2003
Tools> Options> Save
I haven’t lost work in Microsoft Office in over a decade!
It also asks you if you want to save any file (Excel, Word, Access), before you close the file, if you've made any changes. I don't see what the rant is going on about.
“TextPad? to edit source code????
*shudder*”
I had that very same thought!
If I was forced to work without intellisense I would be a goner
hehe. And not because you suck, but because there just isn’t any rhyme or reason to software libraries anymore or any documentation to work with.
not JUST, at least....
Did you learn to program in ENIAC code or something?
Bring back COBOL, this newfangled stuff SUCKS! :)
Get off my lawn.
COBOL IS the newfangled thing!
Bring back machine code!
Nooooooo!
I took a class in Assembler back in 96 or so. Fortran and BASIC before that.
Turned me off of programming forever, but I did learn a lot.
Assembly is fun and it is the only way to get a few things done. Considering the bloated complex spaghetti code today, it is clean and easy, not to mention fast.
Your idea of fun is vastly different than mine.
I like working with switches and routers and other parts of network admin, and I have been doing that for the last 18 years. Programming just never took hold of me.
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