Microsoft Office could be a bigger productivity drain than Candy Crush

Re:Microsoft Office could be a bigger productivity drain tha... by greggarious on Sunday February 04, 2018 @10:26AM (#16303074)

I would have thought removing clippy would raise those numbers ;)

(Who among us didn't spend an embarrassing amount of time interacting with that little rascal?)

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Re:Microsoft Office could be a bigger productivity drain tha... by jccalhoun on Sunday February 04, 2018 @11:20AM (#16303317)

Honestly, I think Clippy might be due for a comeback. Of course I don't think actual Clippy will come back but I think that some actual intelligent AI could help with office tasks if it worked (which is a big if). In the same way that Word knows I want an outline if I type "I." I think it might be useful if Word could know I want to type a letter if I start with an address or something.

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Re:Microsoft Office could be a bigger productivity drain tha... by tempodox on Sunday February 04, 2018 @01:44PM (#16304114)

> I think Clippy might be due for a comeback.

I suspect so. Just a few days ago I found an ASCII version of that troll in a frigging code editor (http://kakoune.org/img/screenshots/screenshot-i3.gif)

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Re:Microsoft Office could be a bigger productivity drain tha... by greggarious on Sunday February 04, 2018 @02:00PM (#16304202)

My main memory is one of the animations in the 2D version looked vaguely like he's giving the finger, and we'd right click -> animate to cycle through looking for it.

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Re:Microsoft Office could be a bigger productivity drain tha... by contextfree on Sunday February 04, 2018 @02:32PM (#16304389)

Both Office and Google Docs have been recently adding features that try to do this sort of thing, sans anthropomorphic paper clip.

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