Re:Settings are not a design failure
by hbn on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @02:41PM
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This isn't really the point of the discussion, but I've always found MS Office features particularly hard to discover because even if you Google for it, half the results are for a different version that has a totally different UI from your version.
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Re:Settings are not a design failure
by frosted-flakes on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @03:19PM
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Why are you getting results for Office 2003 and earlier? I doubt people are still writing stuff for 19-year-old software.
Re:Settings are not a design failure
by spaetzleesser on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @03:22PM
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Same problem in StackOverflow. I always have to check how old the answer is.
Re:Settings are not a design failure
by drexlspivey on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @04:54PM
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Sounds like SO needs a setting to hide old answers
Sounds like SO needs to stop closing questions as duplicates when the accepted answer is seven years old.
Re:Settings are not a design failure
by BeFlatXIII on Thursday February 03, 2022 @10:05AM
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They should have a way to close the _old_ question as a duplicate and point it at the new one for handling outdated answers.
That might require SO to do some light semver tracking but I don't think that's too much to ask.
Maybe people don't need to see questions asked when Tomcat 8.mumble was new now that we're on 10.something.