Dear Users… (A thread for Sysadmin, Technical Support, and Help Desk people) Part 10

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*sigh* This document has never been touched by anyone who knows a damn about how to drive Microsoft Word properly. :( I'm thinking of just starting over from scratch.
 
arthwollipot said:
*sigh* This document has never been touched by anyone who knows a damn about how to drive Microsoft Word properly. :( I'm thinking of just starting over from scratch.
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That has long been my policy. So many documents in my organisation created by people with no understanding of tables or styles but with a passion for the tab key and for manually formatting every paragraph with no interest in consistency.
 
malbui said:
That has long been my policy. So many documents in my organisation created by people with no understanding of tables or styles but with a passion for the tab key and for manually formatting every paragraph with no interest in consistency.
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Exactly! Exactly.
 
*facepalm* The document contains screenshots, with certain locations on the screenshots boxed for clarity. The boxes are added over the top using Word's drawing tools - they're not part of the screenshot itself. Which means that the position of the boxes is not linked to the position of the screenshot! If I move the screenshot, I have to separately move the boxes! Aaargh!

On the title page there's a Section Break (Continuous) followed by two paragraph marks, then a Page Break. Save me from people who don't know how to drive Word.
 
malbui said:
That has long been my policy. So many documents in my organisation created by people with no understanding of tables or styles but with a passion for the tab key and for manually formatting every paragraph with no interest in consistency.
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For years it's been my habit to bring all text into Notepad to work on the contents, then paste it into a new Word document for formatting freshly. I don't like to inherit other people's whitespace mistakes.
 
Yeah but that's kind of a chicken and the egg problem with corporate cultures absolute love affair with unnecessary charts and formatting.

One of the first things stupid, unnecessary people do in any corporate hierarchy is get all overly picky about how data is presented and shared.

"The indents on my nested flowchart don't look right when I move it from Word to GoogleDocs" can, in a lot (not all, not even most) says more about corporate climate than formatting compatibility.
 
TragicMonkey said:
For years it's been my habit to bring all text into Notepad to work on the contents, then paste it into a new Word document for formatting freshly. I don't like to inherit other people's whitespace mistakes.
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It’s a very pragmatic approach.
 
I’ve had to send a senior paralegal to Word training because she kept treating Word like a typewriter. I think WordPerfect encouraged this mindset, but Word is so much more powerful.
 
Dr. Keith said:
I’ve had to send a senior paralegal to Word training because she kept treating Word like a typewriter. I think WordPerfect encouraged this mindset, but Word is so much more powerful.
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Yeah, but I'm still nostalgic for WordPerfect and that blue screen.
 
I have had this conversation, reproduced here from memory as accurately as I can:

"Why when I change the formatting of text on this page does it suddenly change the formatting in random other places in the document?"

"Okay, do you know how Styles work?"

"I don't need to know any of that crap. Just answer the question."
 
I never used WordPerfect extensively, and on those few occasions when it did, I didn't understand it at all.

I would be much better at it now, having worked with HTML (and BBCode) which uses formatting tags in the same way.
 
And now I'm told that the document I did extensive work on yesterday - the one that hadn't been updated since 2018 - is not the current version of the document and I have to do it all again.
 
arthwollipot said:
And now I'm told that the document I did extensive work on yesterday - the one that hadn't been updated since 2018 - is not the current version of the document and I have to do it all again.
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ISO 9000. Big bank was supposedly fully compliant but the senior manager in our area kept reorganising our Sharepoint so even finding our doc was difficult.
 
arthwollipot said:
And now I'm told that the document I did extensive work on yesterday - the one that hadn't been updated since 2018 - is not the current version of the document and I have to do it all again.
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Because you worked on it this week that makes your version the current version.
 
Got asked to scope out a new room at a site my client will be expanding into.

8 wall outlets... not a single 3 pronged grounded plug.

I didn't even think that was building code okay anymore. None of my stuff is going to plug into it. Even the laptops have 3 prong cords.
 
JoeMorgue said:
Got asked to scope out a new room at a site my client will be expanding into.

8 wall outlets... not a single 3 pronged grounded plug.

I didn't even think that was building code okay anymore. None of my stuff is going to plug into it. Even the laptops have 3 prong cords.
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I just bought an old house with no grounded plugs. Had to replace the panel to get enough room to add the necessary circuits. But at least I know the 3 prong plugs are done right.
 
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