• droans@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Nah, the worst part is when I have to watch someone else use Excel.

    YOU DON’T NEED TO RIGHT CLICK AND SELECT COPY. YOU CAN JUST PRESS CTRL+C.

    And virtually none of them know how to paste values, so all the templates end up messed up.

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      7 months ago

      True, watching other people use Excel is painful. I used to have a coworker that was so good at Excel that she didn’t use a mouse at all and was way quicker than anyone else. She made me feel guilty whenever I was the one being watched because I knew she must be frustrated watching me do things with shortcuts and the mouse.

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        7 months ago

        as long as you don’t think the function bar is a search bar. coworker opened my excel spreadsheet and I guess thought it functioned like Google?

        I was right behind her to train so no formulas were injured.

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      7 months ago

      Not Excel, just general computer usage- my daughter refuses to Control-C and Control-V and right clicks instead and it drives me nuts.

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        7 months ago

        Like my wife who uses Caps Lock to create capital letters. I’ve told her to use shift but she’s too far gone.

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          This could be a typewriter holdover. I have vague recollections of some shitty '70’s typewriters having only a caps lock (or rather shift lock) toggle to save on two keys. I might have hallucinated that, though. It’s been a while.

          Or she is just being obtuse. I don’t know how old you two are.

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            7 months ago

            We’re in our 40’s, so not old enough for typewriters. I do remember my dad had one at his workplace though!

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        7 months ago

        It’s all fun and games until they find a text box control that doesn’t have the right click menu enabled. Then they’re baffled.