Guys Kamala is 60 and a career politician. I don't think this is a given.
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My HR manager is also 60 and routinely publishes the company newsletter as a .docx.
Nothing is a given in this life.
Also the new intern might not be able to do this either. There's a surprisingly narrow age range where this skill set is expected
Yeah but the career politician part means that she hasn't had a job since McDonald's that didn't come with at least half a dozen underpaid assistants, so it's a fair assumption.
and routinely publishes the company newsletter as a .docx.
This is good or bad?
Using an easily editable format seems good. Microsoft though
A) Why would a newsletter need to be editable?
B) The vast majority of our staff access the newsletter via their phones, and will not care to install an app just so they can read it.
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Obama, Carter, and (somehow) Teddy Roosevelt
For sure Obama could convert a Word doc no problem. Hell, ~~Cheney~~ Bush Jr. probably could've as well.
To be fair, Teddy only managed to convert to PDF by sheer gumption. No matter how many clippies he faced, he never gave up, never crashed his Word, and always disabled OneDrive before anything else.
Roosevelt didn't convert word documents to PDF. He edited the PDF directly, with a hex editor.
"Bully!"
"Back in my day..."
I'm pretty sure you can just select pdf when saving the file in word.
Edit: lol wasn't really commenting on the politics of this post, just being pedantic about word processing software. Please don't read any political meaning into my statement lmao.
One candidate is 78 years old, types in all-caps, and forgets what he was saying halfway through a sentence. For my money, I think it's a fair bet that the difference between a PDF and a native MS Word file eludes them.
On second thoughts...
Come to think of it, a regular client of Epstein's teenage human trafficking ring probably know more about 'PDF files' (ahem) than most of us.
Right, but keep in mind how low the bar is for politicians. They have people for this.
Are we sure this isn't the first presidential election where a candidate even knows what a pdf is?
“What’s word?”
And reminder: "save as PDF" is better for accessibility because it keeps tags and structural metadata. "Print as PDF" strips that and makes accessibility nerds sad. (This comment brought to you by me, a librarian/webadmin armpit-deep in updating several sites to meet the new ruling on digital accessibility for government websites in the US)
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But will she enable the option to create bookmarks from word headings? Surely no one ready for that.
Okay, but is America ready for a president who is a PDF file?
Give me somebody who uses markdown with pandoc and I'll be impressed.
Or emacs with org-mode.
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Would definitely make a refreshing change
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