I do this a lot. I print an Excel sheet and then I scan it to PDF and then email it.
(I have to have it hand-signed though
)
I will say that there are times where a manual recalculation is necessary; sums, etc, are only as reliable as the user inputting them.
Spreadsheets have been around forever. History of Spreadsheets
Most mainframes had some kind of spreadsheet, but coding them for the big old mainframes was clunky. My way-older brother worked for ExCellO in the 60's and his job was tinkering with the spreadsheet software for efficiency. (He was also in charge of their computer chess team)
VisiCalc was amazing partly because it worked on a PC, but also largely because it was the first time a computer spreadsheet was designed by someone who actually understood business spreadsheets, rather than just a programmer.
Stupid user story: I remember once when a client complained that the "sleep" function didn't work. He was trying to take a nap at his desk, but he was still awake . . .
BrunoPuntzJones
Lifer
- Feb 24, 2001
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I can also never seem to get the point across that Acrobat is not a word processor.
"I want to be able to change this sentence here and move this paragraph and then spellcheck"
"You can't really do that, that's not what Acrobat is for. Open the Word document and do it there."
"But I've already printed it and scanned it to a PDF!"
"I want to be able to change this sentence here and move this paragraph and then spellcheck"
"You can't really do that, that's not what Acrobat is for. Open the Word document and do it there."
"But I've already printed it and scanned it to a PDF!"
Here is another good one. Not mine, another tech at work sent this out:
Original ticket:
It seems that almost on a daily basis sometime multiple times a day, I lose my connection to the server, internet, IP for phone. This has caused some issues when working/saving documents and also dropping conference calls. Can something be done to find out why my connection fails so often?
Thank you,
Solution:
The customer had his network cord running directly under his clear plastic carpet pad. Each time he rolled his chair over it, the plastic spikes would poke a hole into the cord causing intermittent loss of signal. I have replaced his cord and rerouted it around the room (25 ft. long cord since his desk is in the center of the room), to prevent any further issues of the spikes creating holes in the cord. The customer is working fine again on his phone and laptop...................Closing the ticket at this time........
Original ticket:
It seems that almost on a daily basis sometime multiple times a day, I lose my connection to the server, internet, IP for phone. This has caused some issues when working/saving documents and also dropping conference calls. Can something be done to find out why my connection fails so often?
Thank you,
Solution:
The customer had his network cord running directly under his clear plastic carpet pad. Each time he rolled his chair over it, the plastic spikes would poke a hole into the cord causing intermittent loss of signal. I have replaced his cord and rerouted it around the room (25 ft. long cord since his desk is in the center of the room), to prevent any further issues of the spikes creating holes in the cord. The customer is working fine again on his phone and laptop...................Closing the ticket at this time........
Joemonkey
Diamond Member
- Mar 3, 2001
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You know the only thing I wish Excel could do natively? Suppose i have a list of 50 things in column A, and a list of 24 things in column B.... give me a way to say "exists in column A and B and put each of them in column C, even though they are not the same number of things"
I'd do something like this
if((vlookup(a1,b:b,1,FALSE))!='#N/A',a1,if(vlookup(b1,a:a,1,FALSE))!='#N/A',b1,"")
Ready for a stupid speller story...
I read this post on ATOT and the guy used "here" instead of "hear" at the end of his post.
I was asked to look at someone's website before it's released. I was sent a PDF. That was from a scan of a paper print-out of the site.
My wife used to do deskside support.
I'll let my wife type the story, it's rather long:
I was hired into the IT dept. the first week I started college. I had the luck to have a member of the IT Dept staff as one of my professors who recognized I knew more about computers then some of the staff.
After I had been working for several weeks I had a ticket to install a new computer for the Chancellors administrative assistant. I'll date myself by stating it was a brand new IBM model 40 running OS/2. In any case, I called her and made an appointment and at the appointed time showed up at her office with it.
For some reason, even though we spoke on the phone earlier she freaked out on me, stating "I WILL NOT let a student assistant install MY new computer that I have been waiting for 6 weeks for...blah blah blah and I know more about computers than you..." So I said, "Fine, set it up yourself. Call me when you need your old one picked up."
An hour later, she left me a miserable voice mail that it wouldn't power on and she couldn't understand why and would I come take a look at it. 3 hours later I bothered to stop by. I made sure everything was properly attached, after confirming that I crawled under her desk to check power and started laughing. She had plugged the surge strip back into itself. It gets worse. When I went to plug it into the wall she yelled at me, "What are you doing?! If you plug that into the wall my computer won't be protected from surges." I laughed, walked out, and called my manager, who also laughed.
I'll let my wife type the story, it's rather long:
I was hired into the IT dept. the first week I started college. I had the luck to have a member of the IT Dept staff as one of my professors who recognized I knew more about computers then some of the staff.
After I had been working for several weeks I had a ticket to install a new computer for the Chancellors administrative assistant. I'll date myself by stating it was a brand new IBM model 40 running OS/2.
In any case, I called her and made an appointment and at the appointed time showed up at her office with it. For some reason, even though we spoke on the phone earlier she freaked out on me, stating "I WILL NOT let a student assistant install MY new computer that I have been waiting for 6 weeks for...blah blah blah and I know more about computers than you..." So I said, "Fine, set it up yourself. Call me when you need your old one picked up."
An hour later, she left me a miserable voice mail that it wouldn't power on and she couldn't understand why and would I come take a look at it. 3 hours later I bothered to stop by. I made sure everything was properly attached, after confirming that I crawled under her desk to check power and started laughing. She had plugged the surge strip back into itself. It gets worse. When I went to plug it into the wall she yelled at me, "What are you doing?! If you plug that into the wall my computer won't be protected from surges." I laughed, walked out, and called my manager, who also laughed.
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