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[–] [email protected] 118 points 9 months ago (5 children)

My wife started a new job a few years ago, and during training she was shown how to create invoices.

  1. Open the excel template
  2. Fill inn the items, and the prices
  3. Sum all posts USING THE DESKTOP CALCULATOR ...

She was completely dumbfounded.

[–] rustydomino 45 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I'm a professor and require students to submit typed homework as either docx or pdf format - a student wrote their paper in Word, took a screenshot of it (including their desktop), then saved the screenshot in pdf format.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It was probably cuz you can't run plagiarism checks on it.

[–] rustydomino 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I know that one but in this case it was pretty clear it wasn’t plagiarized.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Ocr is a thing, not that hard to get the text back.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Please tell me that you at least showed the student that you can save a word doc as a pdf.

[–] ohlaph 3 points 8 months ago

I wouldn't be surprised someone else wrote it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I’ve seen pdfs with just a photo of a monitor showing an error message.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I've had support tickets with screenshots pasted inside a power point presentation

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

I wouldn't equate that to not realising you can let the shower warm up. Not even close.

[–] emergencybird 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The programmer in me died when I read #3

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

The compiler in me died when I read #4

[–] ilikecoffee 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Don't correct the trainer and reap the benefits, I guess... ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] ilikecoffee 1 points 8 months ago

Ah thanks, I was looking for it everywhere!

[–] perviouslyiner 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The best thing about Excel is the look of hatred you get when using ctrl+; in front of someone who's been manually entering the date through their entire career.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Ugh.

At least my Excel efficiency just increased.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

As an engineer, I hate the way excel handle dates