The excel function thing has had me fucking irate every time I want to use Excel

My fucking god just thinking about it has my blood pressure rising

Like Ok I get why they localize them but my fucking god just make both versions work like what the fuck is wrong with you

Oh i fucking hate this one, at least once a week I hit control S and excel goes "no problem I'll underline that cell fo you cause obviously that's the shortcut for 'sublinhar' "

But that's not the worst part.

The worst part is the actual save shortcut in portuguese.

It's ctrl+b. I can't think of any portuguese 'B' word that would translate to save.

'Save' = 'salvar'.

But we can't do Ctrl+s BECAUSE THAT SHORTCUT IS ALREADY TAKEN

I sure am glad I just use English on all my devices despite it not being my native language.

The commands in Excel are localised too, and if you want to change languages you'd have to install some language pack. And I think that due to admin lockdown policies in Windows, if you have to work on a restricted company machine, you won't even be able to do that because you don't have permission to install stuff

Well, Ctrl+S is def what I would expect my programme to do for saving. But for Italics I want nothing else but Strg+Umschalt+K. English hegemony can get bent.

I HATE this. Got absolutely shellshocked by this on a work computer recently.

Luckily, you can "just" change your locale! This is a process that took me a whole hour to figure out, required admin access as well as a system reboot. And it didn't even work properly.

The same day I ran into a quirk regarding the filename field. Fun fact: Word pulls this directly from the OS. This almost makes sense, except if you want to decide whether or not the file ending is displayed (ie .word). Then you need to set this IN YOUR OS?! There is no other way to set this, and it is broken. When you finally figure this out and set it back to not display the file ending, word keeps doing it, seemingly forever. Yes also through reboots. This issue was fixed over 10 years ago, and then promptly reintroduced and never addressed again. Libreoffice just has another field, this took me all of 30 seconds to discover. But then you have to save in odf, because the word format is ass apparently.

I thought my respect for Word had troughed.

Many such wacky cases in Windows. Like where you install your software ("Program Files") is localized too.

Yeah, it's really shitty. In German, Ctrl+F is Bold.

So the Japanese version would require Ctrl+ほ?