Dear Mr Fuchs, I hope your are doing well, and thank you for the email and your response. I am sorry I wasn't clear, both of the documents were saved in either OOo and in Word, however, when I sent the OOo documnet saved in "Save as in Micorsoft 97/2000/XP as an attachment, the OOo document won't open in Word. So I need to type .doc when I send an OOo document saved in Micorsoft 97/2000/XP? E.
----- Original Message ----- From: Harold Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, November 3, 2006 0:47 am Subject: Re: [users] problems with sending as an attactment in OOo To: [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Thursday, November 02, 2006 6:07 PM [GMT+1=CET], Eusevio Arias > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear Mr or Ms, > > > > I tried to send OOo ans an attachment and it failed to open in MS > > Word 2003. I did saved it as a Windows document (in save as dialog > > box)and it > > failed to open when I clicked on the document to open it. I > going to > > assume that the person at the other end (a business) does not have > > OOo. > > > > I sent it as an attachment with out saving it in Windows and it > failed> to open, when I clicked on it in either OOo or MS Word. > > > > So what happened, and what am I doing wrong? > <snip> > 1. When you say you saved the file as a Windows document, what > really do you mean? What you need to do is use the File>Save As > menu; make sure that the "Save as type:" is set to "Microsoft Word > 97/200/XP (.doc)" and that the box labelled "Automatic file name > extension" is ticked. Simply saving the file with ".doc" at the > end of the name is *not* sufficient. > If you do this then the document will be readable by MS Word. > > 2. When you sent the document as an attachment without saving it, > what exactly do you mean? What you need to do is use the > File>Send>E-mail as Microsoft Word ... menu. If you don't do this, > then even if you named the document with ".doc" at the end it will > not be readable by MS Word. > > Harold Fuchs > London, England > >
