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Woman uses Word as browser, narrator watches in silent existential dread
A Reddit-style anecdote describing a client who has developed an almost religious devotion to Microsoft Word as her sole communication medium, including using it to view websites via hyperlinks instead of a browser. The narrator documents increasingly absurd examples of this behavior with bemused fascination.
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I have a client who communicates exclusively via Microsoft Word.
If she has something to tell me, I'll receive an email with nothing in the body, but a Word doc attached. That's where she writes her message.
Whenever she wants to email me a photo, she does so via an empty Word doc with said photo set as its background.
But my favorite thing was the first time I witnessed her visiting a website. She had me spell the URL ("W... W... W... dot...") and with my own two eyes I watched her type it into Word, made it a hyperlink, and Ctrl click it to go there.
I was so fascinated I didn't even say anything.