I
could match Peter K’s comments point for point. I was taught how to use
the other ‘productivity tools’ in the MS suite but not either the
MS email product or indeed either the IBM or DEC (remember them?) products
which hosted the email systems I used before Bill conquered the world. We have
written the sort of guidance listed for clients over the years but I doubt that
they have ever been fully implemented – ‘too much trouble’; ‘reduction
in desktop productivity’; ‘you can’t expect young people of
the MTV generation to spend time doing that’; ‘I can always
find what I want in my mailbox’ etc, etc. The words ‘sewing’
and reaping should be in there somewhere.
The ‘grumpy
old archivists/records managers’ strike again! I was aware as I wrote
the sentence that PK would point out that the spelling difference of ‘practise’
as a verb and ‘practice’ as noun does not apply in the US but when
in Rome…
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