Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[ebikeerwidnes]

I don't mind Excel. I do however have a problem with people who confidently assert that they are really good with excel and then don't appear to be able to write a formula or use a pivot table / data validations.

Yup

"I know excel"
Ok - when did you last use a COUNTIF or VLOOKUP

When I was starting to train as a teacher - after working in IT for 20 years - we had to do a self assessment of our IT skills

The admin went through the forms and discovered that it said that the IT teachers in training had self assessed themselves the LOWEST of all the teacher groups

Our tutor asked us why

we came to the conclusion that we knew what excel and the like could do and we knew that we could only do half of it

the PE and Art teacher probably thought they were doing well to add up a column of numbers
and had no idea there was more to it
so they assessed themselves as being good at it
but we said he only knew half of it - because we knew more of it

 

[DaveReading]

Well whilst you were in nappies there was Lotus123, that ruled the world.
Then there was Foxbase, that was cruelly good.
Both got "assimilated" by the dark forces at MicroSoft.
The rest is in the public record.

Who remembers Harvard graphics, who managed to ruck that up?

Not only do I remember (and loved) Harvard Graphics, I also remember SuperCalc and 20/20, two more early PC (and pre-PC) spreadsheets that didn't last long..

 

[No Ta Doctor]

If the apostrophe was a monkey or a toad, David A would be all over it's abuse and suffering.

It's a fundamental law of the universe that any post about grammar will itself include a mistake

 

[Alex321]

Not only do I remember (and loved) Harvard Graphics, I also remember SuperCalc and 20/20, two more early PC (and pre-PC) spreadsheets that didn't last long..

And what about Wordstar? The first PC word processor I ever used.

 

[figbat]

And what about Wordstar? The first PC word processor I ever used.

I remember Wordstar, and AmiPro. Plus Lotus 123 and Freelance Graphics.

 

[DaveReading]

And what about Wordstar? The first PC word processor I ever used.

WordStar on CP/M, those were the days ...

 

[captain nemo1701]

When your cursor strays into the bottom left corner of the screen and then you're facing endless mainly right-wing rubbish from MSN.

 

[Gwylan]

I remember Wordstar, and AmiPro. Plus Lotus 123 and Freelance Graphics.

AmiPro was good too.

 

[icowden]

And what about Wordstar? The first PC word processor I ever used.

Wordperfect was the best.

 

[mistyoptic]

AmiPro was good too.

I’m still using Wordpro

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I used to have a boss who typed memos in Teco

on a PDP11

and if you understand that, you are a proper geek!!

we did persuade him to use Word after a while

on an IBM XT upgraded to an EGA screen and a 20Mb hard drive - Oh the POWER!!!

 

[PeteXXX]

Have we mentioned GEM Desktops Wordplus? 🤔

 

[Andy in Germany]

Yup

"I know excel"
Ok - when did you last use a COUNTIF or VLOOKUP

When I was starting to train as a teacher - after working in IT for 20 years - we had to do a self assessment of our IT skills

The admin went through the forms and discovered that it said that the IT teachers in training had self assessed themselves the LOWEST of all the teacher groups

Our tutor asked us why

we came to the conclusion that we knew what excel and the like could do and we knew that we could only do half of it

the PE and Art teacher probably thought they were doing well to add up a column of numbers
and had no idea there was more to it
so they assessed themselves as being good at it
but we said he only knew half of it - because we knew more of it

It's called the Dunning-Kruger effect, and it shows consistently in a lot of areas.