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Like it or not, pretty much all enterprises run on Windows software. Not just desktop, either. Active directory and Exchange are pretty much the standard for all enterprises.

And non-techies in these places couldn't live without Office. I once got an email with an attached Word document that contained an embedded Excel spreadsheet with exactly two cells -- an IP address and a hostname -- for a DNS entry I needed to update.

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As the Four Yorkshiremen would say: Luxury!

At least you could copy and paste. In some work environments, you would have been sent a JPG screenshot of the IP address and name.

Now enjoy the discussion of images in mail messages in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14567074 (-:

That seems impressively competent for your average office user being able to embed a spreadsheet. What was wrong with them?

I think you can just copy and paste cells from Excel into word

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