this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2023
15 points (100.0% liked)
Aotearoa / New Zealand
2140 readers
6 users here now
Kia ora and welcome to !newzealand, a place to share and discuss anything about Aotearoa in general
- For politics , please use !politics@lemmy.nz
- Shitposts, circlejerks, memes, and non-NZ topics belong in !offtopic@lemmy.nz
- If you need help using Lemmy.nz, go to !support@lemmy.nz
- NZ regional and special interest communities
Rules:
FAQ ~ NZ Community List ~ Join Matrix chatroom
Banner image by Bernard Spragg
Got an idea for next month's banner?
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
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.
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, 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.
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.
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.
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.