Would definitely make a refreshing change
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I don't think they even know how to use Word
It's like the principal in my school hitting return many times to get to the next page.
I did an office IT course which was next level: making sections which enable you to change every bit of the page format without altering other sections.
At the time it didn't seem to matter but that course was instrumental in saving so much time and hassle.
Man, I never expected the Onion to be optimistic.
But she is so young. If you consider 60 to be young
But will she enable the option to create bookmarks from word headings? Surely no one ready for that.
Guys Kamala is 60 and a career politician. I don't think this is a given.
She was also a lawyer early on in her career. I'm sure as an office gopher she handle plenty a PDF, printing, copying faxing and DOCX.
How old are you?
Kamala Harris was already middle aged when the DOCX standard was released or the workflow of converting a word to pdf became common. All of that stuff really didn't hit mainstream until the Obama administration. It would have probably even been longer for a legal office to adopt it.
I think it's safe to say she knows how to use Microsoft Word (or something like Lotus Notes), print a document, and even scan something to a pdf. I bet you could also teach her how to use ether "print to PDF" function fairly quickly. However if you just plop her in front of a computer and tell her to go at it I think the most likely result is Kamala swearing at the ribbon interface..
Early on in her career was before pdfs were a thing.
My HR manager is also 60 and routinely publishes the company newsletter as a .docx.
Nothing is a given in this life.
and routinely publishes the company newsletter as a .docx.
This is good or bad?
Using an easily editable format seems good. Microsoft though
A) Why would a newsletter need to be editable?
B) The vast majority of our staff access the newsletter via their phones, and will not care to install an app just so they can read it.
Just give them Windows phones, problem solved.
A) To make remarks and comments.
B) Ugh.
Who’s making remarks on a company newsletter? Those guys don’t even use the feedback form we provide them.
Seriously though, does it piss you off when you buy a newspaper and can’t send them remarks and comments by writing on it?
You actually can write on a newspaper
Yeah but the career politician part means that she hasn't had a job since McDonald's that didn't come with at least half a dozen underpaid assistants, so it's a fair assumption.
Also the new intern might not be able to do this either. There's a surprisingly narrow age range where this skill set is expected
Give me somebody who uses markdown with pandoc and I'll be impressed.
Or emacs with org-mode.
Or writes it directly in LaTeX.
Where are you on a scale from convenient to a precursor of XML?
Personally I write in org mode and export to LaTeX/pdf from there, so I'm at the convenience end of the scale, and the resulting file is probably less than a tenth the size of what someone would get from saving to pdf from Word.
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