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attaching a word doc to e-mail
I tried to attach a word document to an e-mail and something went
wrong. They e-mailed me back to say they couldn't open it. I had to send it to them in plain text in the body of the e-mail. Later I did a test by sending an e-mail to myself and attaching a word document to it. I used yahoo e-mail. I got the e-mail, clicked "view," and what came up was garbled. So obviously I need a little help. Is it possible to send a Word document as an attachment to e-mail, and if so, how? If not, what options do I have besides cutting and pasting text into the body of the e-mail, losing all the formatting etc. |
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Don't choose View or Open; instead choose Save As to save the attachment to
your HD, then open it from within Word. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. wrote in message ups.com... I tried to attach a word document to an e-mail and something went wrong. They e-mailed me back to say they couldn't open it. I had to send it to them in plain text in the body of the e-mail. Later I did a test by sending an e-mail to myself and attaching a word document to it. I used yahoo e-mail. I got the e-mail, clicked "view," and what came up was garbled. So obviously I need a little help. Is it possible to send a Word document as an attachment to e-mail, and if so, how? If not, what options do I have besides cutting and pasting text into the body of the e-mail, losing all the formatting etc. |
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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Don't choose View or Open; instead choose Save As to save the attachment to your HD, then open it from within Word. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. wrote in message ups.com... I tried to attach a word document to an e-mail and something went wrong. They e-mailed me back to say they couldn't open it. I had to send it to them in plain text in the body of the e-mail. Later I did a test by sending an e-mail to myself and attaching a word document to it. I used yahoo e-mail. I got the e-mail, clicked "view," and what came up was garbled. So obviously I need a little help. Is it possible to send a Word document as an attachment to e-mail, and if so, how? If not, what options do I have besides cutting and pasting text into the body of the e-mail, losing all the formatting etc. Okay I get it. The document wasn't messed up. The people I sent my e-mail to must have made the mistake of trying to open or "view" it directly -- the same mistake I made when I tried my little experiment. I guess the only way to make sure a recipient of my e-mail gets to see attached Word documents is to make explicit instructions in the e-mail on how to open them. Not the kind of fussy thing I want to include in my communications when I'm sending my resume to somebody. Nuts. |
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