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?
Why do people sharing slides in online meetings not put powerpoint into presentation mode?
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…
It seems to only be online meetings. Like everyone regressed, except they still do it properly when it’s an in person presentation.
Oh ok so it’s more like a tech equivalent of how they look presentable but only from the waist up.
Yeah, it’s crazy how people seem to have so little understanding of how to use basic apps, like Office. I guess it’s partially a failing of UX, etc. The vast majority of people I work with have no idea how styles in Word are supposed to work… although that is definitely a case of poor UX.
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.
Ah right… I guess maybe they don’t quite understand the concept of screen sharing?
I have no idea.
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.
True, but Office is also really shit in a whole range of ways, some of which make it confusing.
Fortunately, I get to refuse to use it ;-)
Occasionally I’ll use LibreOfice Calc if I need a spreadsheet.
I just can’t find anything in Calc :(. I’m too used to Excel, which I made a career out of at one point.
I can’t find anything in excel either!
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.
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.
Haha oh that’s almost as annoying as watchlist the video without making it fullscreen.
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…” >_<
Oh man you reminded me how much I hate being sent Word documents that should have been PDFs.