As I’ve gone through life as an IT guy, I’ve seen many strange issues and helped many users. Today I want to share one of those experiences, and maybe continue doing these as I have time. Today’s issue is a Microsoft Word issue with a very nice user.
The user called me up, because Word was displaying strange markings and she couldn’t figure out why they were there and/or what was going on.
I rush over to her desk in a flash hoping to be dumbfounded by some strange occurrence that I had never seen before. I get there, and see no issues. This is when she exclaimed: “They are right there, those red and green squiggly lines! Make them go away!!”.
I tried to explain that the “squiggly lines”, as she so eloquently put it, was a feature to show her the mistakes she had made in her document. This is when she informed me, of what will be my closing statement to this post:
“I don’t make mistakes, so this ‘feature’ as you call it, is obviously broken.”
