Word and Excel are both part of the Office “suite” of programs. Like all Windows programs, they open in windows with a big red “X” button in the upper right-hand corner, and a smaller grey “x” below that. In either program, if you click the small grey “x” button, it closes just the file that you’re looking at in that window.<\/p>\n
In Word, when you have multiple files open, and click the big red “X,” it closes just the file you’re looking at, leaving the other files open.<\/p>\n
In Excel, when you have multiple files open, and click the big red “X,” it closes the entire program, and all the open files.<\/p>\n
I don’t actually have a preference about which of these actions would be preferred. I would personally go with having the big red “X” close all open windows, because otherwise the small grey “x” is kind of redundant, but it really doesn’t matter. You can make a sensible case for either of those actions.<\/p>\n
What is not in any way sensible is having two programs that are both part of Office do two different things<\/strong> when you click the big red “X.” Everything else looks just the same– the same symbols on the buttons, the same keyboard shortcuts, the same format for the utterly useless help files– but they behave completely differently when you start trying to close files, and it’s absolutely maddening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Word and Excel are both part of the Office “suite” of programs. Like all Windows programs, they open in windows with a big red “X” button in the upper right-hand corner, and a smaller grey “x” below that. In either program, if you click the small grey “x” button, it closes just the file that… Continue reading Why I Hate Microsoft, Aleph-Nought in a Series<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}