Word frustration

For the most part, I like working on the computer. Professionally, I work with words and documents and use Word alot. I'm one of the office's expert users (which doesn't mean that I can work around all the darn annoying things Word automatically does these days when you don't want it to), but it does mean that I mostly know how to do things elegantly and simply. When I'm into it, working on a document feels like playing the piano (not that I was ever very good at THAT, but still).

It drives me nuts to see how some people mangle basic documents! There are a people here who use their computer like a typewriter. They use the space bar and paragraph returns to block a paragraph. ARGHHH!! They say, "It looks the same as when you do it." "Um, NO.". "It does when you print it out!" GRRR. "Turn on the Paragraph button and take a look at it." "Oh I hate that button, I never click it to on." Yeah, and look at what crappy work you've done, too, I think and sometimes say, slightly more nicely.

Sometimes I'll take way longer than I should fixing crappy programming like that just because I can't stand letting something that goes through my hands as a work product go out in the world looking like that.

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overheardnyc is really funny and an interesting slice of life. I gave up on little_details because there were just too many posts to read, but it was a really interesting look at what people are researching.