Help ! Chuck or other techie...

[NoMercy]

Hi... just had to send a work-related email with an attachment (works wps). The recipient has just called to say that she cannot open the attachment and could I resend it in Word.

How the fluff do I do that? I'm working from home btw.

Seeing as it's me... someone will have to explain it very, very, very slowly :-)

Fank ewe. x

[Count-A-Strong]

Try saving it as a .doc file i.e. right click / save as and then change the extension to [document nam].doc

[hc4361]

Open your document in your Works program.
Click - file - save as.

Scroll down the save as type box and click Word 2007 program.

That version will open in Office Word.

[NoMercy]

Thanks guys.

hc... I tried that but my comp won't allow me to save it as a Word doc. :-(

[hc4361]

In that case I suggest you use googledocs.
Copy and paste the contents of the attachment to a googledoc and share it with the recipient. Send the link by email.

[hc4361]

http://docs.google.com/

[NoMercy]

Would a html doc work? I know it might change the format....

[squarebear]

Not many people use Works nowadays. Do you not have Word on your work PC?

headwreck - what type of file is it? It should have three letters after the dot like
test.doc
quote.xls
or similar.

[squarebear]

A HTML doc is a webpage. I wouldn't send it like that.

[hc4361]

Or if you have a printer and scanner, print the doc out, scan it in and send the scan as a file attachment.

[Davethedog]

Save it as a text file .txt it won't look nice but every one has a text programe

[squarebear]

Does it have to be in Word format? If it's just a short message, why not use notepad or Wordpad?

[craft1948]

Can't you just copy and paste the word wps into the body of the email?

[NoMercy]

I'll try what Craft suggested and see how that goes.

Any other suggestions welcome, though, and thanks to all. x

[ChuckFickens]

Either do as Craft suggested, or open the document and then save it as rich text format (.RTF) and send that, RTF files can be opened by just about anything and they will keep any formatting in the doc.

[Answerprancer]

You could copy/paste the text into a notepad document then save as [document name].txt - anyone should be able to open that.

[NoMercy]

Chuck... you are an absolute fluffing genius !!

I wubs you x x

[joko]

i asked this the other day...try this http://www.zamzar.com...this converts it and send it back to you..free

very easy and fast