Excel Comments in Your Face

Using a table in Excel. Put comments in the column headers that now WILL NOT SHUT no matter what I do. Switch worksheets? No dice. Close and re-open? No-dice.

All is not lost. Found a VB script while Googling. Thanks Microsoft. I realize Excel is fairly new and it will take some time to smooth out the rough edges. Ugh.

Update: found a button on the Review Ribbon section called Show/Hide comments. In the past, the commend "bubble" disappeared when you moved from the cell.

Shifting Favorites in Outlook

I use Office 365, including Outlook. This is the second major version that resorts my Favorites folder on a regular basis. To be perfectly precise, it tends to change the position of all Favorites folders as if it were scrolling down. In it's defense, Outlook seems to "scroll" them consistently, but the fact that such a simple feature simply doesn't work and hasn't been fixed in 2 major version just adds to the daily flogging.

Squarespace feature request: please don't delete my data

I used SQUARESPACE to create my Web site. Although its UI seems designed for people from another planet, once you get used to it, you can create decent looking, reasonably functional sites without too much trouble.

A few days ago I was creating a new page on my site when I noticed a link at the bottom that said "Enable Page". Imagine my delight when I clicked it and the page reloaded without any of the text I'd just spent 20 minutes typing!

After a less-than-friendly e-mail to support, I got a response acknowledging the problem with a tepid commitment to put in a feature request to development? What? You just lost my data and it's not a bug?

In their defense, development eventually responded acknowledging that it was a bug. Will be interesting to see how quickly it gets fixed (we hear so much about the responsiveness of SaaS companies).

Battery? What battery? The missing Windows 10 Battery Meter

For reasons I can't begin to imagine, the battery meter on my laptop disappeared from Windows 10's System Tray. A Google search revealed lots of complicated solutions, but the following worked like a charm for me:

From Device Manager

• Click drop down for "Batteries"
• Disable and re-enable
• AC Adapter
• ACPI Compliant Control Method Battery

Not a huge deal, but further erodes my faith in Windows 10, Microsoft, the software industry and perhaps humanity.

BTW, getting to Device Manager was a bit tricky because at regular intervals, I lose (at once):

• The start menu
• Context menus on icons in the Task Bar
• Context menus in the System Tray
• Availability of native Windows apps

What better way to say "We got your money, now we just don't care?"