On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 11:41 +0100, Jason Wilkins wrote: > I'm having difficulty sending e-mails with open office attachments. > The attachments are sent but then can't be read by the recipient. > Am i saving the files in the wrong format? What should I be doing? > Any help gratefully received.
Brewster: Sorta starting at Square One, aren't you, Jason.... *All* word processors offer, in the "SAVE AS" dialog, a choice of what format to save the file in. The default value will usually be the native file format of the particular word processor. So if you fail to notice the choice, or just use "SAVE" instead of "SAVE AS", you will default to attaching Open Office format files, and unless your recipients also use Open Office, of course they won't be able to open your files. Likely they're still using some version of MS Word. Of course it wouldn't be a bad idea to actually *ask* them what they're trying to open with, *before* you send them attachments. Probably your most widely applicable bet would be to save your files as MSWord/97/2000 .doc files, since almost any MSWord version can probably read those. Open Office can read them, too, but naturally it doesn't work the other way :-) BTW when posting a request for help to a group like this one, it is generally considered good form to mention the operating system under which your computer is running, and what version of Open Office you're using. Brewster -- *********************************************************************** Embrace a sharing community of sustainable justice low-carbon diversity *********************************************************************** W. Brewster Gillett [email protected] Portland, OR USA *********************************************************************** Simply because you don't like to hear it, that doesn't make it untrue. *********************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
