Thursday, March 17, 2005

Our internal address list needed updating - partly because it had been a while since it had been done, partly because someone managed to hose the Word file into gibberish.

I spent the better part of yesterday and this morning typing a new list from scratch - this time as an Excel spreadsheet - thinking that would be easier for people to update on their own without hosing the columns.

Not even two hours after I sent out the email to let folks know the new list was available and requesting that they check it over, I get an email from one of our guys in a suboffice saying the list is gibberish!

Un-freaking-believable.

Taking a look for myself, it is indeed gibberish - not one single person’s information is decipherable amidst the gobbledygook that is now in the file.

I have no idea how they managed it. I don’t know what they’re doing. It shouldn’t be this difficult to update a stinking Excel spreadsheet! What sux is that I deleted the Word doc and shredded the prinout that I used to recreate the new file. I’ve done a search on my hard drive, hoping to find a cached version of either, with no success. If any of you know how to ferret out “deleted” documents, I’d appreciate some guidance.

LATER: I found an old hardcopy from October 2004. Sheesh.