Student fixated on minutiae

I'm teaching an online, first year class. Most of my students are working adults, so it's been a decent bunch, with the exception of one student who is starting to drive me a little nuts. He has come to office hours regularly every week, but his questions are not oriented around content; he's fixated on minutiae.

Three weeks ago, it was which font he should use to produce a document because I had offered a choice of 3 in keeping with the more relaxed standards we have for formatting. Two weeks ago, it was that I had asked them to do online annotation of a document, and they needed to consistently pin or highlight certain types of information, and he couldn't decide which to do. Last night, it was that they're working on adding to a document, and I asked them to "as you add on, please show what you've added on by changing the font color, changing the font, making what you add bold, or highlighting what you add." Again, he couldn't decide which one was the "right" one to do.

I have checked, and he does not have any accommodation request. I did see that he is repeating classes he took last year (and failed) but switched to almost entirely online. He did say something in a much earlier office hours that he was taking online classes because he hoped that meant teachers wouldn't yell at him so much for asking questions.

I have tried, "which one would you prefer?" and "what do you like best?" and "what looks best to you?" I have tried, "it's important that you make decisions like this on your own so that you can take ownership" and "you need to be able to do this because other instructors are not going to make the decisions for you." I have moved on to, "I need you to make a decision right now and stick with it," and "I'm not going to make a decision for you. You pick and tell me what you're going to do." He'll pick, then waffle, then be unable to get the work done because of these little things.

I suspect there's a need for accommodation, but I can't suggest that.

The thing is: if I just tell him, then he produces the work and it's decent, passing work that should move him forward in his education.

But I know that going through this weekly is not helping him.