Re: Dangerous Command-Tilde Behavior!
- From: neillmassello@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Neill Massello)
- Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 01:31:18 GMT
land@xxxxxxx <LAND@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On the Mac, as you probably know, there is a valuable distinction
> between command-tab (switch apps) and command-tilde (switch windows in
> an app).
>
> This is dangerously broken in Excel, which brings the next workbook
> window to the front as expected, but leaves the keyboard focus on a
> now-hidden workbook.
>
> On more than one occasion, I have lost data by using command-tilde (a
> habit developed in many other applications) to switch to a workbook,
> then typing (or pasting or...) and destroying the contents of the other
> workbook. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
>
> Has anyone figured out a way to make this work as in virtually all
> other well-behaved Mac apps?
Upgrade to Excel 2004.
.
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