It happens to the best of us

And we now present proof that, after all these years, even Dr. Nerd is capable of a slip up every now and then...

My "inspiration" (the same one who, just last night, figured out the concept of a volume knob all by herself) called me asking for help with Word. She was inserting comments into a document and was utterly baffled at the fact that the comments were showing up not with her name or initials, but with "MS Office 1" as the identifier. I walked her through the changing of the user ID in word, but the comments she had inserted still showed as "MS Office 1." Apparently, our IT rocket scientists gave her a new computer, but forgot to set up certain things for her...like her name rather than a generic identifier (yay team).

I had a theory, but pretended to be stumped. She called over Mr. McGee - her nerd in shining armor from last evening and I went back to my desk to test my theory before looking like a jackass and being subject to the ridicule of my readers. Sure enough, I was right - I opened up a doc that had changes tracked, changed my "ID" name to my Nom de guerre (Robert A. Booey) and made another change to the doc. Sure enough, the changes that were there were under my "real" name, while the new edit showed my homage to the producer from the Stern show.

I ran back down to her office, saw McGee still there, still stumped and took the opportunity to revel in yet another win for the good guys (or me...however you look at it). Went back to my desk to finish up a review of a doc for a colleague which I promptly sent off. Walked over to her workstation (a fancy word for cubicle) to ask her a quick question about something she was reviewing for me, and noticed that my changes to her document were showing up in 2 different colors. I had forgotten to go back from Booey to my real identifier before finishing up that doc.

Thankfully, she enjoyed my flub and I caught it before editing any client documents. Given that they're mostly foreign, I doubt they'd have gotten it.