Subj : Re: 33 Years!
To   : Spectre
From : boraxman
Date : Sat Dec 03 2022 21:14:43

 Sp>  bo> Part of this is the way the system is designed, it becomes easier to 
 Sp>  bo> things the very inefficient way, than the efficient way.  People don'
 Sp>  bo> learn how to take screenshots on their computer, or how to copy and p
 Sp> 
 Sp> I have to disagree with this, but it's going to depend on what you're
 Sp> doing I s'pose.  I find these days where documents and sometimes images
 Sp> are embedded that its easiest to take a screenshot, paste it straight
 Sp> into an editor and take it from there...
 Sp> 
 Sp> Spec

I does depend on what you are doing.  Here is a common scenario that I face at the office.  I work with white collar professionals who have tertiary or higher education.  A typical workflow might be like this.  Someone wants to convey information that I may need to insert into a document.  They pull that information up, perhaps by opening a PDF or by bringing up a table of information that is created by a database or database like system.  They take a screen snap and e-mail it to me, which means I must read, and type the data in.  Had they copy and pasted, or been able to copy and paste, I could have saved the effort, and potential for transcription errors.

Another common scenario is that data is screenshotted from Excel, perhaps, if lucky, copy and pasted into a table.  A more suitable workflow would see the document generated by pulling the data from Excel directly.  Labels created by querying Excel (or some other file) instead of manually input.  The thing is, I provided a "proof of concept" example of how to create specifications where the data was extracted directly from the master data spreadsheet automatically.  Simple, easy, no transcription errors.  however, you have to learn how to use Word at a slightly higher level, and take a little more care in how you format the source data.  In other words, you had to learn something new, so it was a no go.  we do things the hard way still, error prone and time consuming.

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