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prog ([personal profile] prog) wrote2004-01-28 12:43 pm

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I am using Excel at work for the first time, for a task more involved than opening and reading other people's files, in a project that needs to be finished by this afternoon.

... ohhhh mah gad ...

Please tell me that there is a way to make the little Bonzi-Buddy-style dancing-toastermac thing go away and stay away. I am so, so, so not in the mood to have my work interrupted from time to time because it is time to watch dancing clowns. Tofutti break!!

(In a loud, clear voice: "MICROSOFT...")

[identity profile] leighjen.livejournal.com 2004-01-28 10:08 am (UTC)(link)
"...SUCKS!"

[identity profile] tahnan.livejournal.com 2004-01-28 11:25 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, oops, I read that as the raised-shaking-fist sort of clear loud voice. (Intonation the same as "Gilligan...!")

I went into Excel to try to find where one turns off the Assistant. But I had done so long ago, couldn't find the option, and refused to turn it back on to find it lest I be unable to turn it off again.

[identity profile] leighjen.livejournal.com 2004-01-28 12:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, just tested it.

If you go to "options" under the office assistant, you unclick the "use office assistant" button. That should make it go away.


moo

[identity profile] prog.livejournal.com 2004-01-28 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
This more or less worked, by the way... clicking on the little jerk brings up a menu, which (if you click the right choice) brings up a preferences dialog, and unchecking every checkbox found within seems to have done the trick.