The Daily WTF

Putting a full-featured IDE on every user’s desktop and providing them basically no guidance on how to use it would, in most circles, be considered a mistake. That mistake is also known as “Microsoft Office”, which continues to haunt us.

Now, much of the macro-based application development in Office applications is written by non-programmers. But there’s still a disturbing amount of code written by people who should know better, and thus you end up with mission-critical applications written in Microsoft Access.

Douglas inherited one such database. At some point, one of their end users got confused- this user was used to mainframe-based applications which present screenfuls of data and don’t have scrolling. So, when presented with a window that could scroll, they were flummoxed. Why did the

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