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Hey. Look at that column of dates you got. Would be a shame if they got converted to random numbers.

Im sorry, the auto date formating is by far the worst. Just leave my numbers the fuck alone man, numbers are supposed to be precise, judt dont fucking touch em. Rant over lol

More profitable to sell the disease and the cure!

I once made an xlsx with a VBA module and put it in my often-late coworkers' startup folder. It would check log-on time and if it was between 9:01am and 9.59am it would send an email to the rest of the team apologizing for being late that day.

Stunning that I could do that on what was supposedly a locked-down internal system.

I mean, if people weren't desensitized to warnings like this by getting them constantly, I think you'd be right

They're borderline works of genius, some of them

Not so far-fetched when you realize that Windows crams AI into everything and the text file might contain malicious instructions.

I call BS. More likely notepad++ attempted to update and their new installer is no longer signed as the developer has been having issues getting a new signing certificate based on the app name (they want a legal identity).

Yep.

A constant stream of creating problems and then creating solutions for those problems, which cause more problems....ad infinitum.

Go back and fix the root cause?

Impossible!

Then our 2nd and 3rd tier 'solutions' would have all the 'solutions' based on them not work!

Yup, it's a shit bandaid to mitigate a shit design. The MS specialty.

Scripting is great in Excel, but I've never encountered or heard of a use for it in Word.

For me, when I open an Excel file from our business partner, it will always open in protected view which limits the functions the document can do. I then have to tell it to open in regular view which closes the doc and reopens it, wasting my time.
But sometimes even doing that won't solve the problem. It will say I have to go into the doc's properties and mark it as "safe". That requires closing it yet again. Right clicking it in file explorer, and checking a box in the properties tab. Then I get to reopen it yet again.
And I have to do this nearly every single time. Fun stuff.

As someone who never did anything dodgy with a computer in my time. Its cos Microsoft files opened not in protected views can embed and execute macros. These macros are essentially a remote code execution. Mostly not used anymore (defaults to disabled macros) but plenty of large orgs still have macros enabled cos legacy bullshit.

U can do similar with some font formats, screensavers, and a multitude of unexpected things that most people think are completely safe. That's how linustechtips was got rce through screensaver disguised as PDF that installed a rat and token stealer that stole live YouTube session tokens. U can also use the victim device as an exit for routing traffic as a reverse proxy so tokens appear to be coming from the same device to avoid triggering security warnings.

Tldr don't enable it for random files from dubious sources and check the file extensions else u will get hacked.

Malicious PDFs are a thing.