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		RheingoldRiver on Nov 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My favorite coding question to give candidates > Same with Microsoft's search in the start menu. Doesn't find Excel if I type "exc". What do you get? I tried just now, and `E` gives me Excel. In fact, I typed "Esc" first on accident, and I got something different for "Es" but "Esc" gave me Excel too.

croes on Nov 14, 2023 [–]

Sometimes I get nothing until I type "Excel", sometimes I get suggestions for a web search.

RheingoldRiver on Nov 14, 2023 | [–]

Ah, maybe the difference is that I disabled web search completely so it's limited to locally-installed stuff. If it's suggesting web results, I wonder if that's a deliberately-bad result for advertising reasons

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