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I don't understand how chat service can be so intertwined with printer-first applications (Word, Excel).
by ungzd 10y ago
I don't understand how chat service can be so intertwined with printer-first applications (Word, Excel).
- garysieling 10y agoA lot of large documents are team efforts, and you'd start with a discussion outside the document before it moves into comments inside.
- ungzd 10y agoSo if company prefers printed documents and bureacracy, why not just talk by telephone or use Microsoft Lync? Why they're trying to combine these dusty office things with hipster web interface?
- garysieling 10y agoIt's not necessarily a question of preference; sometimes your employer may be contractually required to write specific forms of documentation. Excel can also be very effective as a small database - I did some volunteer IT work for a co-op grocery store that runs their entire business operation off spreadsheets.
- Sanddancer 10y agoA lot of projects have multiple documents that need to be discussed. There could be a spreadsheet, a few word documents and a powerpoint presentation being discussed. These things are rarely created in a vacuum, so adding a communication facility that can pull up all these things seamlessly makes sharing and discussing that much easier.
- mhermher 10y agoAre they really printer first? I use excel almost daily and Word almost as much, but I don't even remember the last time I printed an excel or word doc.
- jagermo 10y agoI am not sure if you are trolling, but on the chance you are not: Let me take you through my workflow. I write content for companies, e.g. whitepapers, interviews, blogs and the like. If I have to deal with only one internal "stakeholder", its not a problem. Briefing, first draft, one additional call, final version. Now, as soon as you more or "higher" people join the creation process, the amount of digital files increases, as does the e-mail-chain, as doe the calls. If I can just join a company chat about, throw in a document into the mix and get one after the other to sign of on the documents, that would cut down on the amount of version beeing sent around and thus make life easier for me.