One of the strangest & funniest bugs I heard about was in Excel.  There was
an interface between Excel & the mainframe, hundreds of thousands of rows
involved.  It crashed & after taking some time to test it turned out that
someone's last name was an Excel reserved word like sum or add.  The
developer just had to add an ' in front of the name & all was well.

Sherry Wells

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Samson 

Things like this happen more than we might think; and, at least when I do
stuff like this, it is a pure accident even though I've been using computers
for around 40 years or so.
Then, like you, it frustrates me to no end until, of course, when I
discover, totally by accident, what caused this anomaly -- and then I can
laugh at myself for my own stupidity, carelessness -- call it what you like.
Other times, one might create a short cut, such as this was, not realizing
that it is modifyying something that should have never been modified -- and,
if changed, more thought should have been taken to see the consequences.

Now, if I had discovered this unintentional hotkey, rather than deleting it,
I would have likely changed it to hopefully something more non-intrusive.
But, then, of course, I later might discover that it interfered with
something else.

Thanks for sharing.  


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