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Poll: How would you rate your computing skills? | .

Kay Denney — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 15:02:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How would you rate your computing skills?
Poster: Kay Denney
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I actually googled what was meant by "computing skills and was told "The ability to use a computer, navigate the internet, and use common software applications such as Microsoft Office. Managing and organizing emails, using email etiquette, and using email to communicate effectively with colleagues, clients, and customers."
If it's limited to that, I would say I have excellent computing skills. I can even produce a table in Word. *

(*If you think that's not much to write home about, tell that to all the clients who put text into Excel because they want their text segmented but don't know how to create a table in Word, which means I have to work with a text that's very shoddily written because Excel isn't designed to deal with words and has no spellcheck. I kind of feel they deserve a shoddy translation back. But, sigh, my reputation!)

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Yet, here you are!

Poll: How would you rate your computing skills? | Computing or computer skills?

IrinaN (X) — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:29:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How would you rate your computing skills?
Poster: IrinaN (X)
Post title: Computing or computer skills?

Another great question.

Why ask translators if they can compute?

Please check the easily available descriptions and definitions of both and clarify the question.

Poll: How would you rate your computing skills? | Fairly good?

Daryo — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 11:37:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How would you rate your computing skills?
Poster: Daryo
Post title: Fairly good?

Long time ago, in some prehistoric era of computing, when a text processor that would let you "insert text here" was the then state of the art and MS-DOS was yet to be created, even before ARPANET, I made my own Serbian Cyrillic and French screen and printer fonts. For a monochrome monitor and a dot matrix printer.

Poll: How would you rate your computing skills? | Good

The Shredder — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:43:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How would you rate your computing skills?
Poster: The Shredder
Post title: Good

I haven't needed help with anything for over 20 years.

Poll: How would you rate your computing skills? | 30%

Philip Lees — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 05:27:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How would you rate your computing skills?
Poster: Philip Lees
Post title: 30%

Somewhere between good and excellent. I've worked as a programmer, mainly database design and user interfaces, and I write my own code for fancy text parsing, web applications and the like. However, I'm not any kind of super hacker. So I put myself in the upper 30% band.

A regards the commercial software we translators use in our daily grind, well, it's a hell of a lot easier than it was forty years ago.

I'm assuming the person who asked this intended to refer to "computer skills", rather than the ability to compute, as the question states - although I am rather good at mental arithmetic, too.

Poll: How would you rate your computing skills? | N/E

writeaway — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 22:16:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How would you rate your computing skills?
Poster: writeaway
Post title: N/E

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Poll: How would you rate your computing skills? | Other

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 22:01:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How would you rate your computing skills?
Poster: Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Post title: Other

As I said two days ago (another Quick Poll) my computing skills are my weakness: they are probably between average and below average…

P.S. I thought my computing skills were rather poor, but thanks to Kay I discovered they are not… Thanks Kay for enlightening me!

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Poll: How would you rate your computing skills?

ProZ.com Staff — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 20:10:05 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How would you rate your computing skills?
Poster: ProZ.com Staff

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