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Let's skip back to How to stop Excel from automatically checking Workbook performance? - Microsoft Community
This is about repetitive screen clutter, it doesn't need to be there so let's switch it off. I'll point out that contract worker such as myself have no scope to change the settings of the working models of companies we work at. So on a daily basis we have to clean away screen trash which is electronically generated by a Microsoft product. Screen space is always at a premium.
Now the answers on the above link completely skip around the issue - if anything they misunderstand what the questioner is driving at. As another person irritated by intrusive - let's call it feature creep (harsher words could be used) - I'm bemused that increasing product complexity isn't accompanied by ways to clean things up by eg turning off nags.
The issue hasn't gone away. It isn't solved. And yes - just to be clear - I'm perfectly able to redesign spreadsheets to make them more efficient and limit bloat - and I do this if it's in my remit.
I'm also aware that answers can be phrased to close down issues that aren't going to be fixed.
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I have not gotten any feedback or responses from Microsoft. I do see that there are plenty of other people complaining about this issue. Incredibly frustrating!!
Are they still working on it? Because this issue is incredibly annoying and most of us who use this software frequently do not need asinine suggestions that provide zero value.
I'm not sure what the brain trust at Microsoft even does at this point other than constantly reinventing the wheel, with each time being substantially worse than the last.
Does no one test these things before updates roll out? Hilarious that a $3T company operates like this. I've seen startups with more foresight and organization.
I'm so glad you asked. I was wondering the same thing this morning. How do we get Microsoft to understand HOW to do user interfaces better? How come IT IS NOT AN OPTION that we can select/deselect? EVERY ONE of these dumb ideas SHOULD be an option.
How do we get updates from Microsoft? Can a moderator reply with that info so we don't have to ask? Is there a dashboard, something Microsoft wants us to be good at, that we can see? That would seem to be a good way to communicate the updates.
Are they still working on it? Because this issue is incredibly annoying and most of us who use this software frequently do not need asinine suggestions that provide zero value.
I'm not sure what the brain trust at Microsoft even does at this point other than constantly reinventing the wheel, with each time being substantially worse than the last.
Does no one test these things before updates roll out? Hilarious that a $3T company operates like this. I've seen startups with more foresight and organization.
Why WOULDN'T options to turn on or off ALWAYS be available? A few more lines of code and a storage location. If Microsoft can't do that, then they arw in trouble. Settings like this SHOULD ALWAYS be able to be changed by the user, esp. anything that impacts the UI.
Why was this feature added without the ability to turn it off universally?
When can we expect the ability to disable this feature be implemented?
What is the programming ethos behind including a nag banner intended to continually influence and push the user to use a certain feature of a piece of software that they may not actually need to use?
Why does Microsoft need users to use a specific feature?