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I just wonder why the people who kindly collate all the links to Yuletide letters into a spreadsheet don't put them in with each request in a separate row. Right now, it's excellent if you're sorting by requester's name, and terrible if you want to sort by fandom. You have to do a ctrl-f and search for the fandom's name, which takes much longer and assumes you know what you're looking for and spelling it correctly.

My first guess is that it's easier, except that it's really not significantly easier - right now, in order to make it, each individual element has to be copied and pasted and to make it sortable by fandom, you'd just c&p onto different lines, then highlight the URL and requester's name, copy, and paste two more times.

(ETA: Or do what I just did, which is download the table, c&p it 4 times (once for each of the request columns) then delete the extraneous column in each section.)

(ETA2: Turns out there's a little button at the bottom, in faded-out text, that says "Letters by Fandom A-Z" which will sort them in fandom order for you.)

(Not participating this year; just poking about looking at them in case anything sounds interesting.)

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Actually, you can view the spreadsheet by fandom -- at the bottom, click "Letters by Fandom A-Z."

---L.

Ah, ok, thanks.

That faded little letter is actually a separate tab; blame Google's GUI redesign.

Ah, figures. Not used to the Docs redesign yet. (I've gotten used to the Gmail redesign, although not the translucent background that forced me to abandon my teahouse theme, which got dark at night and rendered email subject lines almost unreadable.)

I am very annoyed at how badly the new designs interact with larger fonts. In fact, the spreadsheet flat-out orders me to return to the default font size. No.

Yeah, I thought about that last year. I should pull down the list also. I didn't sign up due to a serious lack of free time, but I'm haunting the Pinch Hit list all the same....

Here's the version I just did (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Amfzj2xDkJtmdDlUczN0a1hkVy0yOHVtUjQtNWt5amc) that's sortable by fandom.

I doubt I'll have time to do a pinch hit or treat, but I do love poking through the letters. :)

Oh, I won't have time. That doesn't mean I'm not going to be tempted and probably give in.