Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

  • @DaveOPMA
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    67 months ago

    Why do people sharing slides in online meetings not put powerpoint into presentation mode?

    • @liv
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      37 months ago

      Ah ha ha ha ha ha

      Omg is that still a thing? That was one of my pet hates like, 15 years ago. I thought it was because the tech was relatively new.

      And then instead of using the remote like a normal person they have to hunch over their laptop fussily looking to click onto the next slide…

      • @DaveOPMA
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        37 months ago

        It seems to only be online meetings. Like everyone regressed, except they still do it properly when it’s an in person presentation.

        • @liv
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          37 months ago

          Oh ok so it’s more like a tech equivalent of how they look presentable but only from the waist up.

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      • @DaveOPMA
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        27 months ago

        I think in this case it’s not that they don’t know how. They can do it fine for in-peson presentations, but suddenly they are doing an online presentation and they don’t feel the need to go into presentation mode anymore.

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          • @DaveOPMA
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            17 months ago

            I have no idea.

      • @deadbeef79000
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        27 months ago

        It’s a failure in education. Companies just don’t train staff in how to use Office. You’re expected to just already know how.

        Office is incredibly complex and powerful, and most users probably only know of a hundredth of the feature available.

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          • @deadbeef79000
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            27 months ago

            Fortunately, I get to refuse to use it ;-)

            Occasionally I’ll use LibreOfice Calc if I need a spreadsheet.

            • @DaveOPMA
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              17 months ago

              I just can’t find anything in Calc :(. I’m too used to Excel, which I made a career out of at one point.

                • @DaveOPMA
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                  27 months ago

                  Haha at least in newer versions of excel you can search for what you want and it will tell you which menu to find it in. I haven’t seen that in calc.

    • @eagleeyedtiger
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      37 months ago

      A similar peeve of mine:

      I once watched my father watch a whole movie on his HTPC connected to his TV with the seek bar/controls and cursor on the screen. I waited to see if he would move the mouse to make it disappear, but nope. Watched the whole thing like that.

      • @DaveOPMA
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        37 months ago

        Haha oh that’s almost as annoying as watchlist the video without making it fullscreen.

    • @d3Xt3r
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      27 months ago

      Yeah, that’s my pet peeve as well. And it’s just as worse when they’re sharing a Word screen in edit mode (instead of going to fullscreen/reader mode), so half the screen is filled with the ribbon bar and everyone’s like “you need to zoom in…” >_<

      • @DaveOPMA
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        27 months ago

        Oh man you reminded me how much I hate being sent Word documents that should have been PDFs.