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[–] StThicket@reddthat.com 120 points 8 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@lemmy.world 46 points 8 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.

[–] k110111@feddit.de 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 16 points 8 months ago
[–] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago

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

[–] lud@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months 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 8 months ago

I wouldn't be surprised someone else wrote it.

[–] zerofk@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 8 months ago

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

[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 17 points 8 months ago

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

[–] emergencybird@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The programmer in me died when I read #3

[–] p1mrx@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

The compiler in me died when I read #4

[–] ilikecoffee@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] ilikecoffee@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Ah thanks, I was looking for it everywhere!

[–] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 8 points 8 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.

[–] Kushia@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago

Ugh.

At least my Excel efficiency just increased.

[–] StThicket@reddthat.com 7 points 8 months ago

As an engineer, I hate the way excel handle dates