On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Dotan Cohen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2009/9/18 Barbara Tobias <[email protected]>: > > I'm using Ubuntu Linux, OOo 3.1.1, and Evolution for email. > > > > When I click on the email option from writer, it does bring up an email > > compose window, but the Writer document is an attachment. Is there a > > way to specify that the Writer text should be in the body of the email? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Barbara > > > > > > As other posters mentioned, you can copy and paste the text from > Writer to Evolution. However, you will loose all formating. If you > need the formatting, you could export the document to HTML, check that > it still contains the critical formatting, and then use the HTML as an > HTML mail. It would be nice if there were a way to automate this. > > > -- > Dotan Cohen > > That's odd. I copy and paste from Writer to gmail frequently and the formatting comes along with the text. I just tried it in Apple's Mail and formatting also accompanied the pasted text. Since OSX is Unix based, it must be an Evolution problem. Maybe another mail client would work differently. John
