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Email "Send-To" Question
Our church office has begun using MS Word 2002 to email a newsletter, using
the FileSend ToMail Recipient function. So far, no complaints, but I was asked a couple questions I couldn't answer - What happens if the recipient does not have Word installed? How about incompatibility between Word versions? I can't find any incompatibility issues on the computers I've checked, but I cannot find anybody who does not have Word installed on their computer. Is this a problem waiting to happen? Thanks very much for your help. |
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If you are emailing the document directly rather than as an attachment, then
Word will convert it to an HTML format email which is readable by most Newsreaders. Word is not needed by the recipient so there is so there is no version incompatibility to consider. However, Word is not the world's greatest exponent of HTML coding and I suggest that you dummy run any newsletters by sending them to a couple of users who you can ask 'how they look' and report any layout anomalies before sending it out to too many recipients. Personally, I would recommend sending the newsletter out as a PDF attachment, but that requires recipients to have a PDF reader such as the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. That way you can guarantee the reader sees as you intend. -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP "JW" wrote in message ... Our church office has begun using MS Word 2002 to email a newsletter, using the FileSend ToMail Recipient function. So far, no complaints, but I was asked a couple questions I couldn't answer - What happens if the recipient does not have Word installed? How about incompatibility between Word versions? I can't find any incompatibility issues on the computers I've checked, but I cannot find anybody who does not have Word installed on their computer. Is this a problem waiting to happen? Thanks very much for your help. |
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Thanks for the prompt feedback. We're emailing directly so that's great
news. So far, the newsletter is pretty basic - one image header, with the remainder being text. We've also requested feedback from a number of folks, and the only comments regarding layout seemed to be when people were using online email such as yahoo.com. These seemed to insert additional lines between paragraphs. Also, thanks for the PDF suggestion. I hadn't thought about that and will look into it. We use them on the website, so the software's available. Don't the large majority of computers now come with PDF readers pre-installed? Thanks again for your help. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... If you are emailing the document directly rather than as an attachment, then Word will convert it to an HTML format email which is readable by most Newsreaders. Word is not needed by the recipient so there is so there is no version incompatibility to consider. However, Word is not the world's greatest exponent of HTML coding and I suggest that you dummy run any newsletters by sending them to a couple of users who you can ask 'how they look' and report any layout anomalies before sending it out to too many recipients. Personally, I would recommend sending the newsletter out as a PDF attachment, but that requires recipients to have a PDF reader such as the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. That way you can guarantee the reader sees as you intend. -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP "JW" wrote in message ... Our church office has begun using MS Word 2002 to email a newsletter, using the FileSend ToMail Recipient function. So far, no complaints, but I was asked a couple questions I couldn't answer - What happens if the recipient does not have Word installed? How about incompatibility between Word versions? I can't find any incompatibility issues on the computers I've checked, but I cannot find anybody who does not have Word installed on their computer. Is this a problem waiting to happen? Thanks very much for your help. |
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Certainly the majority of branded new computers usually have Adobe Acrobat
Reader flung in for free (well it is free for anyone to download from Adobe anyway). My only concern about the Adobe reader is the size of the download and disproportionate disk space it hogs: it is HUGE. For that reason I use FoxIt Reader which is a positively slim line by comparison. However, currently the disadvantage with FoxIt is that it doesn't have a previewer in Vista Explorer - yet. Terry "JW" wrote in message ... Thanks for the prompt feedback. We're emailing directly so that's great news. So far, the newsletter is pretty basic - one image header, with the remainder being text. We've also requested feedback from a number of folks, and the only comments regarding layout seemed to be when people were using online email such as yahoo.com. These seemed to insert additional lines between paragraphs. Also, thanks for the PDF suggestion. I hadn't thought about that and will look into it. We use them on the website, so the software's available. Don't the large majority of computers now come with PDF readers pre-installed? Thanks again for your help. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... If you are emailing the document directly rather than as an attachment, then Word will convert it to an HTML format email which is readable by most Newsreaders. Word is not needed by the recipient so there is so there is no version incompatibility to consider. However, Word is not the world's greatest exponent of HTML coding and I suggest that you dummy run any newsletters by sending them to a couple of users who you can ask 'how they look' and report any layout anomalies before sending it out to too many recipients. Personally, I would recommend sending the newsletter out as a PDF attachment, but that requires recipients to have a PDF reader such as the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. That way you can guarantee the reader sees as you intend. -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP "JW" wrote in message ... Our church office has begun using MS Word 2002 to email a newsletter, using the FileSend ToMail Recipient function. So far, no complaints, but I was asked a couple questions I couldn't answer - What happens if the recipient does not have Word installed? How about incompatibility between Word versions? I can't find any incompatibility issues on the computers I've checked, but I cannot find anybody who does not have Word installed on their computer. Is this a problem waiting to happen? Thanks very much for your help. |
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