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lqawas

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May 12, 2009, 3:41:01 PM5/12/09
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i want to send my word doc as an email but it contains pictures and these
keep going as a seperate attachment. can i send the document with the pics
embedded and the formatting in tact?

Richard in AZ

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May 12, 2009, 4:17:19 PM5/12/09
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"lqawas" <lqa...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:9EE10BB1-1D1C-45C2...@microsoft.com...

>i want to send my word doc as an email but it contains pictures and these
> keep going as a seperate attachment. can i send the document with the pics
> embedded and the formatting in tact?


Send the entire word document as an attachment.

PA Bear [MS MVP]

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May 12, 2009, 4:19:19 PM5/12/09
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Attach the DOC file itself to a new message.
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002

lqawas

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May 12, 2009, 6:37:01 PM5/12/09
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attaching the message wont work because the reciving parties cannot open
attached files (its a work email thing). i have found this advise for outlook
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/senddocasmail.htm however cannot make it
work for windows mail. i have tried to embed the images seperatley but dont
seem to be able to make this work either it just keeps adding them as
attachments. the file does not have to be .doc i can convert it to a
different format if this would help.


"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

> Attach the DOC file itself to a new messagethe file does not have to be .doc an.

Gary VanderMolen

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May 12, 2009, 7:32:52 PM5/12/09
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I suggest you try Windows Live Mail because it is more lenient about
what you can paste into the body of an email.

http://download.live.com/wlmail
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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


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Rainald Taesler

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May 12, 2009, 8:05:22 PM5/12/09
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lqawas wrote:
> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
>> lqawas wrote:

>>> i want to send my word doc as an email but it contains pictures and
>>> these keep going as a seperate attachment. can i send the document
>>> with the pics embedded and the formatting in tact?
>>

>> Attach the DOC file itself to a new messagethe file does not have to
>> be .doc an. --

> attaching the message wont work because the reciving parties cannot


> open attached files (its a work email thing).

Don't the recipients have WinWord or some other wordprocessor available?
Couldn't they use the free "Word Viewer"?

> i have found this advise for outlook
> http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/senddocasmail.htm however cannot
> make it work for windows mail.

Outlook is a totally different beast. And WinMail can not work with VBA
code.

> i have tried to embed the images
> seperatley but dont seem to be able to make this work either it just
> keeps adding them as attachments.

No, this will not work.

> the file does not have to be .doc i can convert it to a different
> format if this would help.

For sure this would help!
Just convert the DOCs to PDFs.
Opening them normally can be no problem. Nowadays there's hardly any
computer with a reader for PDFs. Should it not be installed, the Adobe
Reader is free.
For converting you can use the free (open source) PDFCreator [1].

Sending documents in the PDF format instead of embedding in a mail or
sending DOC attachments is the far better way anyhow. In well organized
business environments all documents are sent as PDFs (except the cases
where the recipient shall be able to edit a document.

HTH
Rainald
[1] http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator


PA Bear [MS MVP]

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May 12, 2009, 9:49:59 PM5/12/09
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Then use Outlook as your default Mail Client. It's much more versatile than
Windows Mail, I can assure you.
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