/* Rant Alert */
It seems Ctrl+P no longer takes you to the print preview with focus on the “print” button.
This is ridiculous. When I press Ctrl+P I want to print. That has been the shortcut for ever and a day. Now, apparently Ctrl+P is “let me select which printer to use”. Why change it? There are now work-rounds that are not “short” – kind of missing the point, MS.
This is clearly a careless (or inept or even disgruntled) developer most likely setting the Default Tab Stop or Tab Order wrongly on the Print dialogue form. And of course MS doesn’t really take testing its software all that seriously so it probably wasn’t spotted before being released.
But it’s just symptomatic of today’s slapdash MS approach.
This sort of thing is just what I HATE about 365 – the product is now inherently unstable because all sorts of buffoons are working on it – one day a feature works the next day it doesn’t. Call me old-fashioned but I quite like my software to do the same thing today that it did yesterday. Nowadays you have no idea what the meddling kids at MS will break overnight, meaning you spend half a day trying to get round it and searching the internet for fixes and the other half trying to report to MS the latest blunders that it has released into the wild. In the real world, my productivity has been seriously hampered by endless bugs that have been introduced. And when, eventually, you find a work round, you have to keep using that work-round because you never know when MS has fixed the mess.
Excel used to be rock solid. It is rare now that it goes a week without crashing or freezing or simply vanishing from my screen. Great product when it works but so, so fragile these days.
Bring back beta-testers and properly-tested releases once every six months.
Still, I’m pleased I have got this rant out into the open on this shiny new Q&A forum (although, I’m sure it will be ignored pretty much like the old Community Forum was). We shall see.
Sigh – if only there was a viable, macro-rich alternative…
