Dave, My brother has a Dell Computer with Windows XP. I have a Mac iBookG4 computer with OS X. I send him an email with a picture attachment and he can't open it. What should he do? I am not sure I understand your last response. Nancy
On 1/15/06 5:08 AM, "Dave Barton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Nancy, > > On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 18:43 -0700, Nancy Steffan wrote: >> My brother downloaded openoffice 2.0 onto his Dell computer. >> He is able to get attachments when I send them from my Apple iBook G4, >> but not pictures. What can I do to help him get pictures. >> Nancy J. Steffan > > I am not sure I fully understand your question, so my apologies if I get > it wrong. > > Are you saying that you and your brother each have OOo (OpenOffice.org) > installed on your computers and when you email him an OOo file format > document he cannot see any of the pictures you included in the document? > > If this is the case, it may be that you are "linking" the pictures not > "embedding" them. Try opening one of the offending documents and right > click on one the pictures, then select "Picture..." from the pop-up > menu. In the Picture dialog select the "Picture" tab and look to see if > there is anything in the Link -> File Name edit box. If there is then > you have only put a link to the picture on your computer, not the > picture itself. The easiest solution is to select and delete the > pictures from the document, then insert them again, but this time make > sure the "Link" checkbox (bottom left hand corner) of the "Insert > Picture" dialog is unchecked/clear. > > Hope this helps > > Dave > > Please reply only to [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
