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[-] StThicket@reddthat.com 121 points 2 years 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 47 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[-] rustydomino@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago

That bad eh

[-] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

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

[-] lud@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

I wouldn't be surprised someone else wrote it.

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

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

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago

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

[-] MadBob@feddit.nl 17 points 2 years ago

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

[-] emergencybird@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

The programmer in me died when I read #3

[-] p1mrx@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

The compiler in me died when I read #4

[-] ilikecoffee@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

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

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Here's your arm: \

[-] ilikecoffee@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Ah thanks, I was looking for it everywhere!

[-] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

Ugh.

At least my Excel efficiency just increased.

[-] StThicket@reddthat.com 7 points 2 years ago

As an engineer, I hate the way excel handle dates

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