America's expectations for its leaders have always been low. We've had presidents who needed help with basic tech, and we were okay with it. But now, we face a terrifying prospect: a leader who might know how to convert a Word document to a PDF.
    • taiyang@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.

    • Landless2029@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      She was also a lawyer early on in her career. I’m sure as an office gopher she handle plenty a PDF, printing, copying faxing and DOCX.

      • hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        How old are you?

        Kamala Harris was already middle aged when the DOCX standard was released or the workflow of converting a word to pdf became common. All of that stuff really didn’t hit mainstream until the Obama administration. It would have probably even been longer for a legal office to adopt it.

        I think it’s safe to say she knows how to use Microsoft Word (or something like Lotus Notes), print a document, and even scan something to a pdf. I bet you could also teach her how to use ether “print to PDF” function fairly quickly. However if you just plop her in front of a computer and tell her to go at it I think the most likely result is Kamala swearing at the ribbon interface…

    • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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      2 months ago

      My HR manager is also 60 and routinely publishes the company newsletter as a .docx.

      Nothing is a given in this life.

      • greenskye@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 months ago

        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

      • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        2 months ago

        and routinely publishes the company newsletter as a .docx.

        This is good or bad?

        Using an easily editable format seems good. Microsoft though

        • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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          2 months ago

          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.

  • Lizardking27@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • egrets@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.

    • Dwemthy (he/him)@lemdro.idEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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?