On Tuesday June 6 2006 10:22 am, John Frasca wrote:
> Hi,
> Like many people, I have my issues with Microsoft...but, how do I send
> attachments of OOo documents to friends and colleagues who are strictly
> MS Office users?
> I sent a test email with an attached Writer document to my home
> computer, to which I have not yet downloaded OpenOffice. Obviously, I
> was not able to open the attachment. Does this mean I have to first
> convert the Writer file to a .doc file? If that's the case, it makes
> double work for an otherwise simple process. Is there an easier
> solution, short of the receiving machines also having OOo installed?
> Thanks,
> John F. Frasca
I would suggest you make and additional icon to your Standard toolbar
(it contains the Save icon). Click the down arrow at the right of this
toolbar, and select the Save As icon.
Now when you want to send a Writer document to someone using MS
Office, click the Save As icon. From the File type dropdown list, select
MS Word 97/2000/XP (.doc). Save the file. If you have also set up OOo to
use your email client, use File > Send > Document as Email attachment.
Enter the email address in the email message and send it.
I would recommend that you save all of your documents in Writer's
format. This format uses a zipped file. If the document gets corrupted,
the content is usually still available in the zipped file. However, a
corrupted file that was saved in the MS Word format is binary and thus not
recoverable at all.
Dan
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