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[-] StThicket@reddthat.com 120 points 1 year ago

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@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] k110111@feddit.de 17 points 1 year ago

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

[-] rustydomino@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago
[-] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] lud@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] ohlaph@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't be surprised someone else wrote it.

[-] zerofk@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] MadBob@feddit.nl 17 points 1 year ago

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

[-] emergencybird@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

The programmer in me died when I read #3

[-] p1mrx@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

The compiler in me died when I read #4

[-] ilikecoffee@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago
[-] ilikecoffee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ah thanks, I was looking for it everywhere!

[-] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Kushia@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Ugh.

At least my Excel efficiency just increased.

[-] StThicket@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago

As an engineer, I hate the way excel handle dates

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