Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

  • SamC@lemmy.nz
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    10 months ago

    Yeah, it’s crazy how people seem to have so little understanding of how to use basic apps, like Office. I guess it’s partially a failing of UX, etc. The vast majority of people I work with have no idea how styles in Word are supposed to work… although that is definitely a case of poor UX.

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      10 months ago

      It’s a failure in education. Companies just don’t train staff in how to use Office. You’re expected to just already know how.

      Office is incredibly complex and powerful, and most users probably only know of a hundredth of the feature available.

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        10 months ago

        True, but Office is also really shit in a whole range of ways, some of which make it confusing.

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          10 months ago

          Fortunately, I get to refuse to use it ;-)

          Occasionally I’ll use LibreOfice Calc if I need a spreadsheet.

          • Dave@lemmy.nzOPM
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            10 months ago

            I just can’t find anything in Calc :(. I’m too used to Excel, which I made a career out of at one point.

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                10 months ago

                Haha at least in newer versions of excel you can search for what you want and it will tell you which menu to find it in. I haven’t seen that in calc.

    • Dave@lemmy.nzOPM
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      10 months ago

      I think in this case it’s not that they don’t know how. They can do it fine for in-peson presentations, but suddenly they are doing an online presentation and they don’t feel the need to go into presentation mode anymore.