Seriously Microsoft, Gimme Something

I am sick and tired of using microsoft products even though, for the most part, I am a huge fan of Powerpoint, excell, and to a lesser extent word. But seriously there are some ridiculous little things that could help me out so much and they do not include these things in any of the releases across the 15 years or so I have been using their products. Since I have a blog I am gonna list some and just because I am a fair guy I am going to point out one they finally did include. For years I thought it was ridiculous that the only colors you could changes cells to in excel were the list of 40 colors available in the drop down. The most recent excel finally lets you use any color you fancy. Unfortunately it also saves your files with a different extension so all the files I need to share with anyone else always get reverted anyway...grrr

THE 'DUH' LIST:
1. File History. You only let me see the last 4 files I opened? Are you serious? What is would be the big problem putting a link that lets you see the last 400 files you opened? You don't need to display them all but give me a button that checks. I can't remember what I named a file from this morning let alone something I may have been working on weeks ago. Hook a brother up with some simple ways to find the file he is looking for using history.

2. Losing my formatting. I may not be an expert so maybe there is a way to prevent this I don't know but I want to throw my PC every time I past something into PPT or word using a certain font, size, etc and it just changes it willy nilly. I could understand if it changed the format to be consistent with the other text in the text box or document. But no, thats not how it works, it doesn't retain the size/font of what I copied from nor does it lock in consistency to other text. WTF microsoft.

3. Double spacing. When I copy and paste something from other documents sometimes it gets double spaced. I have no idea why this happens and it is such a pain because you can't just hit ctrl +1 like you could in the old microsoft works days to turn it back to single space. I usually paste the offending text into a flat text editor and then paste that into my document. My guess is there is some hidden something that the text editor drops off, but c'mon why do you make this such a pain?

Ok, I feel better. I will probably add to this at a later date, microsoft will get to me again!

-dan