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VII.5 Sept./Oct. 2000
Page: 60
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Reflections: so much for WYSIWYG


Authors:
Steven Pemberton

I live in a multi-lingual environment. Although I run the English-language version of the operating system on my PC, some of the programs I use are the Dutch versions, so sometimes I am confronted with the amusing sight of a dialogue box asking me a question in Dutch, and offering the English "Yes," "No," and "Cancel" as possible replies. I have a PDA, and a colleague of mine who has the same PDA, knowing I had written a useful if somewhat complicated spreadsheet, asked me for a copy. These being modern times, I beamed the spreadsheet over using the…




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