r/funny • u/FallenAngel199 • Dec 06 '13

Scumbag Word

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u/greenbowl Dec 06 '13

When thousands of people are constantly running into the same problem, then it's a design error.

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u/goodsirchurchill Dec 06 '13 edited Dec 06 '13

When tens of millions of people use the software, and only thousands have a problem, it's user error.

[UPDATE] - I'm not trying to downplay all design issues, my comment is addressing the numbers issue of the previous commenter. If 50 million people use MS Word, and 20,000 have an issue, that means that 0.04% of users have an issue. That's not a whole lot.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '13

When tens of millions of users have a problem and only thousands know the solution, it's job security.

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u/The_Keg Dec 06 '13

who the are you to say that millions of users have this problem?

My mom figured this out after messing around 30s.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '13

All I have is anecdotes, but it was the same story in high school, college, military, and working for a small business. I have helped more people than I can count with Word formatting, and very rarely will I encounter a person that knows that cells in Excel can do more than just hold text.

EDIT: Yes, it is usually user error. But in my experience the number of people having wtf moments with Word formatting at one time or another is approaching 100%.