I constantly find working in an Austrian corporation fascinating. Things are so many differences, but in a fun way.
For example. In Outlook, my spell check runs through the text in my emails twice. Once in German, then again in English. How cool is that! This is a very nice feature for me because I do write my emails in both languages (though not in one email). Of course as a native English speaker I would find it a bit embarrassing to have typos in my emails. Writing in German isn’t one of my strengths, so I like to have at least the spell check running to be half way understandable.
Excel on the other hand, is a bear. Grrr…. The German system of writing numbers is exactly opposite of writing English numbers. Example: In English we write numbers like 2,456.98 and in German the same number is written like 2.456,98 Argh! As if that’s not hard enough, the American Microsoft Office system (Excel) doesn’t like this. So when I am running an analysis of numbers, both Excel and I freak out. I have to be very very careful when running reports. I swear I almost break out in a sweat. Whew!
Stepping away from the computer, I’d like to mention my co-workers. Right now it is vacation time. Everyone flees the summer heat and goes off on vacation all over the world. My co-workers have been going to Bali, Thailand, Japan, China, Ireland, India, everywhere. And you know what they do when they come back? Bring little gifts for everyone in the office. Isn’t that sweet!
Gift from co-worker who went to Bali
Speaking of spell check, there is a good program Spell Check Anywhere (SpellCheckAnywhere.Net) it adds spell check to all programs.
Thanks for the cool tip