Thanks for your help. I'm now sending as PDF files! Easy when someone knows how!
Thanks again Jason > Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:48:12 +0200 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [users] ATTACHMENT PROBLEM HELP REQUIRED > > Hi Jason, > > Am Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:41:34 +0100 > schrieb Jason Wilkins <[email protected]>: > > > > > I'm having difficulty sending e-mails with open office attachments. > > The attachments are sent but then can't be read by the recipient. Am > > i saving the files in the wrong format? What should I be doing? Any > > help gratefully received. > > my guess is, that you've changed nothing in your settings and therefore > you're saving your files in odf-format (like .odt or .ods). If the > recipients of your email don't have OpenOffice.org, then they can't > read them. > > So you have the following options: > 1) suggest to your partners to install OpenOffice.org (it's free, easy > to use and does not interfere with an installation of MS Office) or ask > them to get the ODF-plugin for MS Office. > > 2) You can save your files in .doc or .xls format. I do recommend, that > you save your files first in the odf-format and only when you're done > with everything, then chose "save as". > > 3) You can save your files as .odt or .ods. If your partners don't need > to modify anything, then you could just export to pdf. OpenOffice.org > has this ability built-in, so this is pretty easy to do. > > I hope, that this helps you. > > Sigrid _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/ We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us now
