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[–] [email protected] 120 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 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] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I wouldn't be surprised someone else wrote it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The programmer in me died when I read #3

[–] p1mrx 4 points 10 months ago

The compiler in me died when I read #4

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] merc 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Ah thanks, I was looking for it everywhere!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 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] 9 points 10 months ago

Ugh.

At least my Excel efficiency just increased.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

As an engineer, I hate the way excel handle dates