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I turned to the audience at large. "Any others who think they would never attempt this?"
"We're not allowed to," offered a man in the second row. "Writing macros is considered by MIS to be an interface change, and that can only be done at the administrator level."
"Forgive my asking," I replied, against better judgment, "but how would they know what changes you make on your own PC?"
"Were required to furnish a list of subdirectories that house user-configuration files. They are placed on the network with restricted write access."
I don't think I have ever exhibited such complete and total speechlessness than at that moment. I resisted asking the man if his company was a subsidiary of the Third Reich, and instead observed out loud that configuring CorelDRAW with such network restrictions is at least twice as advanced and twice as accident-prone as the very action his superiors were trying to prevent.
Needless to say, this was not one of my more successful seminar sessions, having scheduled it for my introductory day, not the advanced day. And this wasn't just a local anomaly; I encountered this in many of the cities that I toured. In most cases, this was a question of perception, not ability: Users simply believed that writing scripts and presets in DRAW was beyond the scope of what they could do and so they never attempted it. |
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