I just spent 40 min. on the phone explaining MS PAINT to a adult college grad professional under 35.  No kidding.

My sister in law is filling out a job application, but it's a .pdf you can't type on.  When I encountered problems like this, I made it into images and wrote over it in Flash.  I also did this with paint a few times when I was away from computer.  For you and me, it's easy, but not for average folk.

I converted to images for her, and had to explain how to save the files I made to her desktop, and then how to use Paint. Select tool, text tool... all new to her.  I also had to tell how to print it on one page.  She tried it herself and ended up printing 4 pages.

And for some reason, I wasn't surprised by any of this at all.

Occupation?  Pharmaceutical Sales.  So of course her competition won't figure this shit out.

wow. Wait how do you use paint?

Text ...tool?

Technology is important, but they say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Or at least it's harder to teach it new tricks.

Why not just convert the .pdf to .doc?

Quote from: GreyClock;1272985Why not just convert the .pdf to .doc?

It messes up the formatting a lot.  It needs to look exactly right (it's a major company she's applying to).

... why am I still awake?  I'm going to bed now!