Although the mass majority of documents arrive electronically and are so processed, there are some that still come into the office on paper only, and requiring hand-editing. I gather that they're to be eventually phased out entirely through the miracle of electronic scanning, that hasn't happened yet.

It's also true that the Register is required by law to go out every government business day; no exceptions. So I'd need to learn these skills anyway, in case someday the computers should crash, the power be disabled, or some other disaster disable the electronic editing process.