At my previous job, I worked with a woman who could reliably create un-openable Word and Excel docs, some of which would even make a W2K box bluescreen.
Came to find out that, when the client would ask for a webpage redesign, she'd pull up the webpage in IE, ctrl-A, open Word or Excel, shift-insert. And between IE and Office, they would dutifully OLE-encapsulate every object and every script on that page, all of which would look fine, until you saved the document and sent it to someone else.
This became the genesis of some of Huey's Rules for Life, notably: - If you use Microsoft Excel as a word-processor, I will kill you with your own LCD panel, and - Do not cut and paste webpages from Internet Explorer into Microsoft Word unless I am sure you know what you are doing. Note: this group does not currently include you, and is unlikely to include you at any point in the future.
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Date: 2010-12-14 12:55 am (UTC)Came to find out that, when the client would ask for a webpage redesign, she'd pull up the webpage in IE, ctrl-A, open Word or Excel, shift-insert. And between IE and Office, they would dutifully OLE-encapsulate every object and every script on that page, all of which would look fine, until you saved the document and sent it to someone else.
This became the genesis of some of Huey's Rules for Life, notably:
- If you use Microsoft Excel as a word-processor, I will kill you with your own LCD panel, and
- Do not cut and paste webpages from Internet Explorer into Microsoft Word unless I am sure you know what you are doing. Note: this group does not currently include you, and is unlikely to include you at any point in the future.