Re: [users] Newbie

[John W. Kennedy]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter : That would put me back on square # 1. I'm still green about OO (and much else). Is there some way to pry the contents out of an attachment, and transfer the content to the body of a blank e-mail ? If I could do that much it would be possible to use the e-mail for E-Zine purposes. thanks Billy In a message dated 6/29/2006 9:40:35 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Billy -- Just a note of caution. Unless I am mistaken, using the PDF route means you will have to attach the file to the e-mail. Am I missing something? Enjoy the heat wave, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith: Thanks for the advice. Will give the pdf option a try since layout IS crucial. New South Wales ? This time of year you must be freezing. We are experiencing a heat wave here, rare for Oregon except in August. Best wishes Billy In a message dated 6/29/2006 8:58:36 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:52:55 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karen : I just joined less than an hour ago. Hopefully there are people on this list who actually answer questions. Yes there are lots of them. What I am trying to figure out is how to get material that I create on Open Office to transfer directly to the BODY of e-mail. Not as Attachments. Not as Attachments, I'm repeating this because in a previous service I used a techie simply could not understand that I wanted to do something non-standard. We don't use techies around here-- well a couple of people are, but the vast majority are simple users. I'm trying to create an E-Zine. Graphics, etc, would be utterly useless as attachments. What exact steps are needed to get stuff from Open Office into the text itself of an e-mail ? The standard Email thing that OO does is to open your email program and add the file as an attachment which as you say is not what you want it to do. There are two ways you can do it: 1. Produce it as an html file. I think most html email programs will open an html file in-line... your graphics still show up as attachments but the program will show them in with the text... might be worth experimenting with to find out how to get the right results. 2. If I were producing something as an E-zine in which layout is important I would save it as a pdf which OO does quite well. E-mail itself doesn't support that, because, to do so, the receiver's e-mail program would have to be able to read and use the data. The only official way to send e-mail is plain text, with optional attachments. However, most (not all) e-mail programs nowadays will handle HTML, as well as plain text, though it is unofficial. And most e-mail programs can also create and send HTML. But this will depend on what e-mail program you are using, while OOo doesn't really have to be involved in the process at all. But if you like OOo's editing facilities better than your e-mail program's, you may be able to edit the document in OOo, select it all, and paste it into an empty HTML message you have just created with your e-mail program. It works for me, at least, with Thunderbird. On the other hand, I can do it just as easily with Thunderbird alone. -- John W. Kennedy "The blind rulers of Logres Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue." -- Charles Williams. "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"