Re: M$ Excel

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jrodman@xxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx wrote:
> In the middle of a long technical discussion about some sort of
> development problem in a clunky API that the customer is misusing:
> 
> Me: I often become unclear as to who is saying what in these email
>     exchanges.  Could you consider indenting or prefixing the text of
>     different speakers differently, as I do?
> 
> Them: Oh, your text is in blue.  My mext is in green.  The other
>       engineer's text I keep pasting in is in red.
> 
> I hope it is obvious that none of the text was any color but black in my
> not-insane mail reader.

I work for a large organisation that has to pay at least some lip 
service to disability / anti-disriminatory legislation.

So I explain that I'm colour blind, and could they please use a method 
that doesn't discriminate against me.  It works surprisingly well.

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• jrodman 22:32 on 12 Sep 2006
  • Nik Clayton 12:22 on 13 Sep 2006

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