2008/9/16 Jeanie Manning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello, I have done a spreadsheet with openoffice.org and now I am trying > to send it. When I press on file, send, document as E-mail, nothing > happens. > > Please help me, how do I send my document as an email attachment or as a > pdf or something, as long as I can send it. > > thank-you , Jeanie > > You don't say which Operating System you are using nor which version of OpenOffice. On Windows XP Pro (which is what I'm using) with OOo 2.4.1 this just works. I didn't have to do anything. Outlook Express on one machine, Thunderbird on another, opens up with a blank, unaddressed message but with the spreadsheet attached. I know that in the past Linux users have had problems in this area. If you are a Linux user, please tell us which version of which "distro" and I'm sure someone (not me) will be able to help. I also can't help if you are a Mac user; again, please tell us which version of the Mac OS you are using and someone "here" will surely know the answer.
If you are using Windows then I'm a bit stuck as to why this doesn't work. What mail program are you using? Is it configured as your "default program for mail"? If you see a web page that has an e-mail address in blue, and if you click on that address, does your mail program fire up? One thing to bear in mind. If you send an OpenOffice spreadsheet in its native format (as an Open Document Format file with a .ods extension) then people not using OpenOffice might not be able to open it. If you want non-OOo users to be able to open your document then you could send it as a PDF (File>Send>E-mail as PDF). Note that your respondents probably won't be able to *edit* your PDF, only to read it. If you want them to be able to edit the document you might need to send it in Excel format. Use File>Send>E-mail as Excel. To cover [nearly] all possibilities you might need to send two versions - OOo and Microsoft. If you really can't get the "direct" e-mail thing to work, just save the document in the relevant format (Save for OOo Calc, Save As for Excel, Export for PDF) and attach the result in the usual way. If you want to save the document in Excel format, use File>Save As and make sure the little "Automatic file name extension" box is ticked (checked). OOo will save a .xls document in Microsoft format. Hope this helps. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
