On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:34:59 +0100, Pat wrote:

On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 17:46:33 +0100, "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife"
wrote:

Why does Microsoft insist (in say Microsoft Office) that if you are using another program, then click somewhere in Excel, that all it does is change to Excel and not actually do what you clicked? Every other piece of software actually does what I tell it to the first time.
It lets you give focus to that program without accidentally performing
an action. It bothered me at first, but I actually like it now.

Another stupid thing Office does - if I highlight some text, then go to another program, the highlight vanishes! What part of multitasking doesn't Microsoft understand?