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Duga

12:00 AM

REFRESH!

[Minesweeper] 59 Games Played. 57 Bombs Used. 9384 Moves Performed. 7 New Users

[rubberduck-vba/Rubberduck] 1 issues opened. 1 issue comments

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Duga

1:32 AM

[rubberduck-vba/Rubberduck] RedCuckoo starred us

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FreeMan

1:56 PM

> there are users are basically trained to just blow through the dialogs and there are other users trained to never ever download anything from the interweb because they can't trust that it wasn't maliciously injected. it accomplishes nothing except annoying everyone

^ is 100% the problem. EVERY time I go to my inlaws, I sit down at their computers and run through all the updates. My MIL looks at me and says "I just can't remember which ones you said it's OK to update, so I don't do any".

I suppose I need to do some screen captures of the "OK" ones, make a document and print it out for them. "If you see this name/message/logo, it's OK to update."

I guess that is better than accepting everything and having them install random/malicious crap that I then have to clean up

Quack Exchange

2:39 PM

Q: Convert a Double to a string with a fixed length in VBA

I am converting a double to a string with a fixed length (6 digits in this case). This seemed like a very simple task in the beginning, but I ran in to many issues. The double can be a large value, a small value, positive or negative or in scientific notation. This made the function grow much big...

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Duga

3:13 PM

[rubberduck-vba/Rubberduck] FullValueRider added label bug to issue #5915: Language inspection for LCase suggests using LCase even when assigning to a variant

[rubberduck-vba/Rubberduck] FullValueRider opened issue #5915: Language inspection for LCase suggests using LCase even when assigning to a variant

> **Rubberduck version information**
The info below can be copy-paste-completed from the first lines of Rubberduck's log or the About box:

Rubberduck version [Version 2.5.2.6030
OS: Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.22000.0, x64
Host Product: Microsoft Office x64
Host Version: 16.0.14701.20226
Host Executable: WINWORD.EXE

**Description**
Language inspection for assignment of LCase suggests using LCase$ even when assigning to a variant

**To Reproduce**
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

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