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Re:The worst of the two worlds: Excel meets Outlook by lostlogin on Saturday February 13, 2021 @09:17PM (#26129088)
My introduction to Office/office horror was a colleague writing her message in PowerPoint, attaching it to an email in Outlook and sending it through. It turned out to be a standard practice in the academic institution I was in.
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Re:The worst of the two worlds: Excel meets Outlook by BeetleB on Saturday February 13, 2021 @10:59PM (#26129544)
Not quite the same, but in several community email lists, sending emails via a JPG or DOCX is the norm. Type it up in Word, and attach it to the email.
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Re:The worst of the two worlds: Excel meets Outlook by apricot on Sunday February 14, 2021 @10:13AM (#26133018)
My institution's administration does this. Every message from them is typed in Word, then attached to an email whose body says "Please read the attached message". They do this for every message, no matter how trivial.

I asked them why they do this, but haven't received a reply, perhaps because my question was in an attached gzipped Postscript document.

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