Message #78

[deedeeb]

Bee, this makes me crazy, too!  I have worked for engineers for years and they just LOVE to tinker with the technology ("look, Ma; I'm usin' the computer!") but they don't always know how to use the software.  I would end up with a giant mess to fix when I could have created the original, correctly formatted, in much less time myself.  What I finally started to tell them was, there are enough people of out work -- let me do my job!  My biggest pet peeve is people who use Excel to do word processing, because they don't know how to use Word to do it properly.  Something about looking at the little columns and boxes transfixes them and they are convinced that's the way to put out a phone list, for example.  I know it's possible to use Excel for this, but it's not the best way, or even the only way!