At 20:15 03/03/2007 -0500, Barry Watkins wrote:
Previously, when I used OpenOffice, I could save documents as Word or Excel documents, and, when I emailed them, they could be opened by Microsoft Office users. Also, the documents would be saved, and indicated as such, as Word and Excel documents. Presently, this does not occur. The saved document is indicated as a "File" document, and users of Office cannot open them.
Windows identifies file types, and your correspondents' systems identify the correct application to open them, according to the file extension. For Word and Excel formats, these should be .doc and .xls. So you are somehow saving these copies of your documents without these extensions. In OpenOffice's Save As... dialogue, there is a check box at the bottom labelled "Automatic file name extension". If this has become unchecked, you will experience behaviour exactly as you describe. Check this box and see if this solves the problem.
These documents are received as .dat documents that apparently cannot be opened by Office users. What is going on?
This is strange, as you have sent your enquiry from Outlook Express. Are the files being sent from Outlook instead, and being received by someone with a different mail application - not Outlook? In this case, if you set Outlook to allow HTML (styled) e-mail, it can result in any attached file being packaged as winmail.dat in a form that the recipient will find difficult or impossible to use. The solution in this case is to send from Outlook in plain text.
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