Re: Word Documents Sent as Attachements
From: Beth Rosengard (bethrosengard_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 10/21/04
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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:08:42 -0700
Hi Stephen,
Did you put "Stephen's Attachment" in the title of the email? I'm afraid I
can't find it. If I trashed it by mistake, I apologize, but you'd better
send it again.
-- ***Please always reply to the newsgroup!*** Beth Rosengard Mac MVP Mac Word FAQ: <http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/index.htm> Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org> On 10/21/04 8:01 AM, in article f9a1f501.0410210701.1975e0d0@posting.google.com, "Stephen G." <gorevan@honeybeerobotics.com> wrote: > Hi Beth, > > I have sent an email with a Word attachment to you to your email > address separately. > > Best Regards, > Steve > > Beth Rosengard <bethrosengard@earthlink.net> wrote in message > news:<BD9C3D29.3A6E%bethrosengard@earthlink.net>... >> Hi Stephen, >> >> I was afraid my suggestions weren't going to work. Just for future >> reference though, in Entourage, open a new message window as if you're going >> to send an email to someone. See the little arrow next to the word >> Attachments? Click on it and the Attachments box will expand. Directly >> underneath it is the "Encode for any computer..." line. Click on it and the >> attachment options will open. The difference is that if you change encoding >> here, as opposed to in Preferences, it will apply only to the current >> message; in Preferences it would become the default. >> >> Now, back to your problem. How are you trying to open the attachments? >> Have you tried saving one to your desktop and then using File> Open from >> within Word to open it? >> >> Why don't you send one of these attachments to me and let me see what I can >> make of it. Put "Stephen's Attachment" in the subject line or your email >> will get thrown out with the trash. And if you're a virus writer looking >> for a sucker to test a virus on the Mac, curses on you :-). >> >> -- >> ***Please always reply to the newsgroup!*** >> >> Beth Rosengard >> Mac MVP >> >> Mac Word FAQ: <http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/index.htm> >> Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org> >> >> >> >> On 10/20/04 12:15 PM, in article >> f9a1f501.0410201115.49be6eb6@posting.google.com, "Stephen G." >> <gorevan@honeybeerobotics.com> wrote: >> >>> Beth, >>> >>> I successfully ran the disk permission repair from the Disk Utility >>> but no luck. Any other ideas? >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> Steve >>> >>> Beth Rosengard <bethrosengard@earthlink.net> wrote in message >>> news:<BD9A942D.3967%bethrosengard@earthlink.net>... >>>> Hi Stephen, >>>> >>>> I sure haven't heard this one before. What version of Word are you in? >>>> >>>> What email client are you using? If it's Entourage, expand the Attachments >>>> pane (click the arrow next to Attachments and then click on the line that >>>> says "Encode for any computer (AppleDouble) ...") and then be sure you have >>>> "append file extensions" checked. If you're in another client, look for an >>>> equivalent command or, in the Word Save/Save As dialog, check "append file >>>> extension" or just type .doc after the name of the file. Now try sending >>>> the >>>> file.doc to your self again. Any better? >>>> >>>> Also, try repairing disk permissions using the Disk Utility. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> ***Please always reply to the newsgroup!*** >>>> >>>> Beth Rosengard >>>> Mac MVP >>>> >>>> Mac Word FAQ: <http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/index.htm> >>>> Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 10/19/04 9:24 AM, in article >>>> f9a1f501.0410190824.462b7368@posting.google.com, "Stephen G." >>>> <gorevan@honeybeerobotics.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> With my brand new G4 laptop I am not able to open any Word documents >>>>> electronically mailed to me as attachments. Even if I send a Word >>>>> document to myself, when I try to open it I am confronted with: "Word >>>>> cannot open this document. The doucment might be in use or might not >>>>> be a valid Word document". Seems like I have missed something and I >>>>> would welcome any advice to help solve my problem. Thanks.
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