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Thanks to those who responded - I might be able to use that Knopf fix in the
future. I also have a copy of the TECH-TAV template, but I have to admit
that I haven't really looked into it much yet, no need so far.
I came in to work today, and one of the VP admin assists immediately asked
me "Do you know Word?" in a genuine panic. She was late getting a document
to a meeting, and between the evil numbering feature and the auto-correct
numbering feature, she could not get a list of eleven items to number
correctly in a file less than a page and a half long. Makes me wonder how
many man-hours are spent tearing out hair in any given office on any given
day.
It also makes me want to get some admin buy-in to develop some in-house Word
training. I find myself having to explain some basic points about usage to
several people in this company on an ad-hoc basis, like putting out little
fires. I may never get them all to change their various bad habits - like
the guy who wants to have a tab stop on every single hash mark on the ruler
- but if I could just get them to enter their names in the user information
areas, I'd be happy. Maybe in some bright and shining future, we will use
version control ... maybe have reviews ... oops, daydreaming again.
- A
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