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confuzzled -> RE: custom envelopes (11/12/2016 8:32:13 AM)
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ORIGINAL: ellengard
You would buy 4.0 just to avoid changing your paper size printer setting in the Control Panel? This one little workaround that makes an older program work fine on Win 10 doesn't seem like much of a nuisance. I give kudos to you for discovering it!
I'm funny like that. Plus, 4.0 does have a few new features, nothing major I know but even so, I'm just that way.
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ORIGINAL: ellengard
To be fair, you changed your operating system, and that's when you encountered your problem. Through perseverance, you discovered an easy fix. So really, to do your custom envelope, there's only one little hoop which is so very manageable given that your operating system changed.
Regarding your comments about making simple software for seniors. Those seniors which include my parents, never had the advantage of having personal computers, neither in school, nor in the workplace. My first exposure to a desktop computer was at my first real job, and the company sent all of us to computer literacy classes.
There are computer literacy classes for seniors. I firmly believe that without this foundation, anything computer related is complicated. As you said, some seniors have a hard time with email. Software is just going to be difficult for them, no matter what, unless they get training and become computer and internet literate first. IMHO.
Most seniors that haven't experienced computers and then get one are determined that they can "do this." A training class? The people I know are too stubborn or too proud to admit they need to "go back to school. " I base my statements on my friends, and my sweet DH, that I've watched get frustrated and then finally just give up and turn their system into a paper weight. It's sad.
My DH is a perfect example. I've shown him I'd bet, hundreds of times, how to pull his email into thunderbird. He uses thunderbird daily to send email (he's still working in the field) and yet he forever forgets certain little things that he ought to do while he has it open. He's a fast learner but he still forgets if it's something he doesn't do on a very regular basis. His reports for work are in excel, I've had to lock the cells he's not supposed to alter to keep him from accidentally making a change he shouldn't. He has had basic training in the software he uses thru me, and still he gets frustrated. I often look at him and just say "You're one of those people who has absolutely NO BUSINESS owning a computer! "
As for hoops to jump thru, I'm not talking about just printing and this situation. Look back thru all the issues people have asked about in this forum, and imagine being a beginner that just wants to make a simple "I love you, you're my forever sweetheart" Valentine card. Even using a template, and opening that, it truly can become frustrating. The way a text box is inserted is good but then you start typing and it wraps where you don't want it to. Oh Yea, you have to click outside of it once to make it work right. Ok. ..... the list of silly little things goes on and on.
The baby boomer generation have almost ALL reached the age of social security. If the developers would take the average boomer and watch them try to work with their software, they'd see all the things we take as being very simple become not so simple for lots of people. My 32yo granddaughter even got frustrated, got up, went to the store, and bought a card. This suggestion goes for developers of ALL software, not just print shop.
I'm sorry. I could go on and on about the senior situation. I just get so discouraged watching my peers doing their best to deal with new technologies and wanting so badly to "keep up." Knowing many of them were college graduates, business owners and the like, it's even more frustrating. I'm done with my rant, and I apologize for going on so. Sometimes I just can't help myself. [:)]
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