Where do templates go?
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I have a copy of Office 2013. I made some custom templates, which were saved under C:\Users\[user]\Documents\Custom Office Templates, as is the default for Office 2013. I then had to reformat my drive, so I backed up my whole documents folder, and then restored it after re-installing Office. No custom templates show up on my File->New screen. WTF?
I google and I find this setting:
It wasn't set to that location, but to the Office 2010 location under AppData\Roaming. Oh, that must be it, I figured, so I set it to the above location. No change.
Turns out, in office 2013, they moved the setting to a different spot WITHOUT REMOVING THE OLD ONE. The setting I wanted was under "Save" for whatever the fuck reason:
My best guess? Since installing, I'd never CREATED a custom template, so that field wasn't filled out (it was blank when I opened it), so it didn't know where to look for previously saved templates, because restoring from backup doesn't exist in fucking 2015.
Jesus wept..
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Is there a reason you censored the user name in one picture but not the other?
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Is there a reason you censored the user name in one picture but not the other?
[spoiler]Yes, there is[/spoiler]
[spoiler]http://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-java-purist[/spoiler]
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Spoilers break links. Awesome.
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Spoilers break links. Awesome.
[spoiler]http://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-java-purist[/spoiler]
and links break spoilers....
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All right, all y'all can flag me for whoosh now, as long as at least one of you explains what's so funny, unless it's "@Yamikuronue spelled her name wrong on one computer".
Also, leading quotes break the @-popup.
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At least that is consistent.
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at least one of you explains what's so funny
I thought it was funny to mess up hiding things by hiding the name in one screenshot but not the other.
I didn't realise the difference in spelling until seeing your post.
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The reason is that after I caught the issue and re-pasted it didn't fucking change the picture.
My name is not misspelled though :)
ETA: Wait, what the hell? When I click "edit", the censored image shows up in my preview?!
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My name is not misspelled though
I assumed. I was joking because of the author blurb.
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When I click "edit", the censored image shows up in my preview?!
Because Discourse.
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All I'm seeing there is "how many extensions does she have?!".
That many icons next to the address bar would rankle me.
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Lol. Well, my name is as discoursistant as the rest of this site XD
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That many icons next to the address bar would rankle me.
Should I point out the latest screenshot has her name again? ;)
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Lol. Well, my name is as discoursistant as the rest of this site XD
I assumed that was some kind of nom de blog, the way you spell it on the author's note.
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Yeah, Jane Bailey is my nome de plume, so I figured I'd use it for my author credit. Belgium is [part of] my legal name, which I usually try to censor out of paranoia
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Should I point out the latest screenshot has her name again?
Yeah, Jane Bailey is my nome de plume, so I figured I'd use it for my author credit. Bayley is [part of] my legal name, which I usually try to censor out of paranoia
That makes sense.I think you'd be trying to bolt the gate after the horse has fucked off now though.
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Yeah, which is why I've given up :)
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Darn, no more amusement for the rest of us.
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When I click "edit", the censored image shows up in my preview?!
Serious response, did you ninja edit in the censored image? If so, you probably caught it when Discourse was "cooking" the post, so it stuck with the version that was posted, even though you'd edited it.Also, again, I'm sure Atwood never tried actually using Discourse on an iPad, because this happens when new posts come in while I'm typing one:
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Serious response, did you ninja edit in the censored image?
Yeah, that was my goal. I have my edit history on so I figured as long as I beat the ninja window it'd be okay.
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I'm with @ChaosTheEternal - I think the Great Discourse Bake Off caught you out here.
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Yeah, that's probably it. Ah well. C'est la vie.
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Yeah, Jane Bailey is my nome de plume
hmm.... interesting.
i wonder how many people know my real name given my nome de plum, and how many of those found it without being told?
</paranoia>
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I don't exactly try to hide it offline. Anyone who's ever given Jane Bailey money has my real name to make processing checks easier XD
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Anyone who's ever given Jane Bailey money has my real name to make processing checks easier XD
this does make it easier. banks do not like cashing cheques where the name on the cheque is not the legal name of the one cashing it.
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Nobody will ever guess my real name!
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It's BenL Ubar.
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Ben Lojbaned-Up-Beyond-All-Repair
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Feature request: Add lojban to list of censored words.
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I have my edit history on so I figured as long as I beat the ninja window it'd be okay.
You (anyone) can flag it and ask for a previous edit revision to be hidden. This was done to one of your posts recently, BTW. IIRC, @riking flagged it. At that point, only mods / admins can see the history. You could, of course, temporarily turn off your edit history until one of us gets to the flag.
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Oh, good to know. I tried editing and just hitting "save" in the hopes that the image in the preview would be therefore inserted where it appeared to be, but it doesn't seem to work.
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Rabul Neb, obviously.
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FYI, I updated the FAQ (in case anyone goes back and reads it):
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/editing-your-posts/782?u=boomzilla
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Re: OP. This is actually concerning.
So. Lesson. Test our backups. Of Everything.
No seriously. Everything - make sure.
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I hate that so many applications squirrel shit away like this. It makes setting up a new machine so much more difficult.
EDIT: congratulations @ijij! On topic post at #38!
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I have now done due diligence and removed my name from this thread :)
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I hate that so many applications squirrel shit away like this. It makes setting up a new machine so much more difficult.
tell me about it. this is why i'm in the habit of not installing new OS over existing one when i need to refresh a machine. i pull a new (or old but no longer in use) HDD and install to it. then i have the old HDD to
- go back to if it all goes pancake shaped, it does occasionally
- reach for when it turns out i forgot to back up that super important file
- bugger up installing the apps i need because i forgot where the settings were for everything.
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I have now done due diligence and removed my name from this thread :)
I hid your revision history on the OP.
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Oh, it was great, too: I couldn't find my license key for Office 2013 on my local machine since everything's moved to The Cloud, but The Cloud insisted I'd never purchased it, but I had an email receipt and official Microsoft packaging saying I had purchased it...
Fun fact: Office, when purchased through an affiliated employee program rather than a student program or retail store, doesn't register in your Microsoft account as being purchased by you. It's entirely under the table. I eventually found the email with my license key and backed it up in multiple locations because if that goes away, I have to buy a new copy entirely.
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Office, when purchased through an affiliated employee program rather than a student program or retail store, doesn't register in your Microsoft account as being purchased by you.
even funner fact, when you get software through MSDN or MSDNAA and you use that same email as your windows logon 2013 and up just know your product key. no product key needed. but if you are on a domain or on a different microsoft live account not only does it need the product key but you can expect it to forget that you entered the product key at least once.... possibly more than once, for the next week or so, and adding the product key does not assicuate it with the windows live account you do use.
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I think you missed your name in the screenshot on post #11:
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/where-do-templates-go/7634/11?u=chaostheeternal
Specifically Chrome is showing your "logged in" name at the top right.
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..When did Chrome start doing that? Censorship is hard work yo.
@boomzilla I fixed it again
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When did Chrome start doing that?
Not too long ago, I believe.
You can, apparently, disable it by going to chrome://flags/#enable-new-profile-management and setting the highlighted option to Disabled.
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Oh, I see. It used to be a picture on the left, briefly, I think.
I've renamed the profile at work since I so often screenshot this PC's browser for this site XD
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I have now done due diligence and removed my name from this thread
Just out of curiosity, why didn't you search for *.dot or whatever in the first place?