Oh Excel

Filed under usability on Wednesday, 17 November 2004 at 19:38.

A document with the name 'Combined Aspect Reports.xls' is already open.

I had two files in two different folders with the same name.

2 Responses to “Oh Excel”

  1. WOW. I really hope that is some old code branch that is, idiotically, still in there.

  2. It’s not just the Mac codebase, either. That bug is there on my installation of Excel 97 (blame our IT dept) and apparently still exists in Office 2003 for Windows[1].

    God knows why. Can it really be that internally they are using the file *name* as some sort of unique key. Gods above.

    [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.windows.off-topic/15713

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