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wiseleo on Dec 8, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Redesigned Notepad for Windows 11

It gets worse. This workaround is also in VBA, which has an enormous install base.

Books on Excel programming explicitly call out this issue. This is one thing I definitely would not want fixed.

You will break countless workflows that have operated for decades.

bombcar on Dec 8, 2021 [–]

And even better non-excel spreadsheets have to know the bug and imitate it when opening excel docs.

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