Ha! That sounds like the conversation I had with my mother at the beginning of the week.
I was asked to print out a copy of minutes from meeting that she attended - which was all fairly standard text although she'd typed it up using Excel "because it's got better formatting".
When I asked where the file was located my mother looked at me like I'd asked her the strangest question ever.
Her: It's in Excel. Me: Yeah, but where did you save the file on the drive? Her: In Excel. Me: Yes, I know what program you used, but files aren't actually saved inside the program, do you know which folder it's in? Is it in the My Documents folder? Her: *sigh* If you don't want to help me I'll just find it later.
Opening Excel and looking at the recent documents did find the file, it was nested about five levels under the My Documents folder and not on purpose.
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Date: 2006-02-10 05:13 pm (UTC)I was asked to print out a copy of minutes from meeting that she attended - which was all fairly standard text although she'd typed it up using Excel "because it's got better formatting".
When I asked where the file was located my mother looked at me like I'd asked her the strangest question ever.
Her: It's in Excel.
Me: Yeah, but where did you save the file on the drive?
Her: In Excel.
Me: Yes, I know what program you used, but files aren't actually saved inside the program, do you know which folder it's in? Is it in the My Documents folder?
Her: *sigh* If you don't want to help me I'll just find it later.
Opening Excel and looking at the recent documents did find the file, it was nested about five levels under the My Documents folder and not on purpose.