---- Original Message ---- From: Casey To: 'Harold Fuchs' Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 7:39 PM Subject: [users] RE: [Polesoft Antispam]Sending Spreadsheets via e-mail (was Re: [users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE)
> Thanks for that information. Let me let you in on what I am trying > to do. I have excel here at my office. All of my managers have > open office. I have created a spreadsheet in excel for all of the > managers to use. They fill out the spread sheet every day in open > office and the send it back to me. The reason I want the spreadsheet > sent back from open office in the body of the email is because I have > outlook. I have created a rule for every email address of all of my > managers to do this: > Move the email to a designated folder automatically > Print the message automatically > The problem is that outlook does not have a rule that opens up and > attachment and then move the attachment to a specific folder and > print it. The only thing that it will do is send the email to a > specific folder and print the body of the email. So you see I am > trying to not waste time by downloading and printing 30 attachments > that come into my office everyday. CAN YOU STILL HELP ME WITH THAT.. > Casey Stokes <snip> Minimally. You could search the Microsoft forums for a script that knows how to "detach" an Outlook attachment and save it in a directory/folder somewhere. If you can do that, then I think you can get another script written that will automatically run Calc (or Excel) and print each file in that folder. You need three things: 1. To install OpenOffice yourself unless your managers are sending you their results in Microsoft format in which case read "Excel" where I say "Calc" below. 2. A Windows guru who knows how to manipulate Outlook attachments and write relatively trivial "Batch" (script) files. 3. Someone who knows how to make Calc/Excel behave in a scripted environment. When/if you find the first two and the guru starts asking, come back here for the third - unless you end up using Excel in which case we can't help. Harold Fuchs London, England
