[nhinck3]

I've always wondered why they've never done a basic pass of fixing stuff like this.

[keithalewis]

Worked with the Excel team on the 2007 beta. They want to do this too, but program managers give them a hard "No." If you touch even one thing there is a cascade of side effects that will drag you off the local maximum.

The PMs are right. It would be expensive to do this and it would piss off existing customers.