Oh it seems to be normal. Once i faced the situation where the student took the pic from his cellphone camera(didn’t know how to take screenshot, or i don’t know what was the reason) and mailed it to me. Anyways, such incidents are normal.

I experienced my first paste-screenshot-into-word email recently at work. In a software company. By an engineer no less.

Facepalm indeed… :P

I feel your pain

@mcai8sh4: I think that is part of the irony here.

@jambarama: Back when I was an undergrad, I was working on some class project with a guy who sent me his java code as a Word document. Naturally it did not compile. I asked him if he even tried compiling it, and he said “no, I don’t have java on my computer”.

This was in an advanced 400 level programming course.

@vacri: Good one! I shall try it next time. :)

@Hector: Classic! This used to happen all the time back in school. Before every assignment and/or exercise our instructors had to remind people how to use the script command on unix.

Half the people still did not get it.

@freelancer: Ooops! I fixed it.

Same problem here.

“You can click on that image to enlarge it.”

Actually, you can’t :P

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Ok, it still wouldn’t work. Let’s try updating the page, hopefully that’ll fix it.

Facepalm.
But I think I’ve seen it worse. Well, not really worse, exactly the same, but in a lab asignment delivery… from a third year student of an IT career.
He was supposed to deliver me the output of several commands issued on a terminal window (I won’t tell you how hard it was to get some of the students to grab the concept of a ssh session). At first I was surprised on the size of the attachment… how can a few text files make a compressed file this big?? Then I unpacked it to find a collection of screenshots. At least he didn’t use .bmp.

Wahahahahahaahahaaa!!!!

How is a person savvy enough to take a screenshot and paste it in word, not know that text is also copy-paste-able?

Anyway, thanks for malwarebytes. Will check that out.

I’m surprised he knew how to take a screen shot. Made me laugh anyhow, thanks!

I’ve had minor success with the people who use gigantic bitmaps (paraphrased):

“use .png for your screenshots, it doesn’t take so much space. Important when you’re doing hundreds of these”

-blank stare-

“it makes it easier for the IT guys to manage your email if you help them out a bit”

-blank stare with a hint of sneer-

“you know how sometimes your emails are blocked because your attachments are too big? If you use .png instead of .bmp you’ll never have that happen again”

-instant convert-