Everything changes every 5 years or so, so you would have to keep going back to take the course again.

I honestly think you could take a 'computer literacy' course at a community college, if there's one around.

Flint wrote:

I honestly think you could take a 'computer literacy' course at a community college, if there's one around.

People have asked for such a class and nothing has happened.

Flint wrote:

My instance of Word was logged into my personal Microsoft account, somehow?? There's no possible scenario where I could have manually done that ...

The plot thickens?

I Googled a tech question, it was (of course) answered in a Reddit thread. I clicked on the link and was reading the thread, then the page refreshed. What's happening, I wondered..?

Oh, no big deal. It was just LOGGING ME IN WITHOUT ASKING. Who/what is doing this??

I HAVE A [HOME COMPUTER USE CASE] AND A [WORK COMPUTER USE CASE] 
I DO NOT WANT THEM MIXED. I DO NOT USE THEM FOR THE SAME THINGS

 

Flint wrote:

…Oh, no big deal. It was just LOGGING ME IN WITHOUT ASKING. Who/what is doing this??

I don’t know what might be enabling crosstalk between your personal and work accounts ((apps could be suspect too).

FWIW, You could try this possible solution on your work account that comes from a related problem with Edge on WIN10. The recommendation is in the last paragraph and would see the fix, at least for your work computer, as being in account settings to ensure there’s only one account listed and that apps can’t sign you in.

That’s all I’ve got: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/714710/edge-automatic-sign-in-to-certain-sites-how-do-i-d
 

fargon wrote:

I am signed up for a class tomorrow at 930 AM, at the library. 1 on 1 training on my pixel book. I'm Exited.

Awesome!

Anon wrote:

That’s all I’ve got: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/714710/edge-automatic-sign-in-to-certain-sites-how-do-i-d
 

This is actually incredibly helpful. I've already fixed the problem with Word, but Settings/Accounts/Email & Accounts was exactly where I had to look to see the problem. My personal account was listed there, so under 'manage accounts' I removed my work device. I also had to manually "sign out" of Word, which is just a stupid concept in its entirety. It's a WORD PROCESSOR used to type words on a blank page. No part of this should need to be "LoGgEd iN" to anything. If I have the license to install it, let me us it, and leave me the ƒuck alone.

The Reddit thing, I have no idea. Probably unrelated, but it just adds to the intrusive feeling of unwanted integration. 

Super annoying. It's a technological miracle that it works, but unless you ASKED for it...

...

Here's one: Microsoft Teams. Unread messages are sorted to the top, in bold. When I've read all the messages, there's nothing in bold. How, then, is it possible for there to be AcTiViTy I need to know about? The little, useless notification bell slowly accrues a "red number" that I am compelled to pay attention to. When I click on AcTiViTy it's all things I've already seen in messages I've read, like, that someone gave me a "thumbs up" reaction. Nobody needs this. Fire the ƒucking guy who thought this was a good, useful feature. All it does is distract me and take minutes away from my lifespan.