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Sender's Word attachments never have *.doc extension
I receive a number of messages to include in our church newsletter. One
woman always sends tables prepared in Word, but her documents never have extensions (*.doc or anything else). As a result, I always hae to manually "select from" programs to open them in Word. That's not a big problem, but it would be nicer if she could send them with extensions. My documents--and everyone else's who sends them to me regularly--authomatically appear with an extension, so I assume that there is some setting that needs to be changed on her copy of Word. She uses Word on a personal laptop, but that's *all* I know about her setup. I could ask questions, if additional information is needed. Can anyone tell me how she could change her settings so she will automatically have the correct extension? If possible, please include info for both Word 2003 and Word 2007 because I may need to go to her house and do this for her. Thanks, MaryL |
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Sender's Word attachments never have *.doc extension
She would have to go to some trouble to save her Word documents without a
..doc extension if she's using a Windows version, but a Mac version might well omit the extension. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "MaryL" -OUT-THE-LITTER wrote in message ... I receive a number of messages to include in our church newsletter. One woman always sends tables prepared in Word, but her documents never have extensions (*.doc or anything else). As a result, I always hae to manually "select from" programs to open them in Word. That's not a big problem, but it would be nicer if she could send them with extensions. My documents--and everyone else's who sends them to me regularly--authomatically appear with an extension, so I assume that there is some setting that needs to be changed on her copy of Word. She uses Word on a personal laptop, but that's *all* I know about her setup. I could ask questions, if additional information is needed. Can anyone tell me how she could change her settings so she will automatically have the correct extension? If possible, please include info for both Word 2003 and Word 2007 because I may need to go to her house and do this for her. Thanks, MaryL |
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Sender's Word attachments never have *.doc extension
I never thought of the possibility of a Mac. I will ask her. If that is
the problem, is there any way to automatically add an extension in a Mac? I can tell from her statements that she is not very sure of herself when using the computer. She does send a lot of tables, but she obviously just uses the same table over and over--but not a true template--and fills in the information as needed. She ends up with some very strange alignments within cells, but that has been easy for me to fix. MaryL "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... She would have to go to some trouble to save her Word documents without a .doc extension if she's using a Windows version, but a Mac version might well omit the extension. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "MaryL" -OUT-THE-LITTER wrote in message ... I receive a number of messages to include in our church newsletter. One woman always sends tables prepared in Word, but her documents never have extensions (*.doc or anything else). As a result, I always hae to manually "select from" programs to open them in Word. That's not a big problem, but it would be nicer if she could send them with extensions. My documents--and everyone else's who sends them to me regularly--authomatically appear with an extension, so I assume that there is some setting that needs to be changed on her copy of Word. She uses Word on a personal laptop, but that's *all* I know about her setup. I could ask questions, if additional information is needed. Can anyone tell me how she could change her settings so she will automatically have the correct extension? If possible, please include info for both Word 2003 and Word 2007 because I may need to go to her house and do this for her. Thanks, MaryL |
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Sender's Word attachments never have *.doc extension
I know *nothing* about Macs, but I suspect she'd either have to add the
extension manually or explicitly save in "Windows" format or something other than just click Save or Save As. If she's as clueless as you suggest, it may be easier to just keeping adding the extension at your end. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "MaryL" -OUT-THE-LITTER wrote in message ... I never thought of the possibility of a Mac. I will ask her. If that is the problem, is there any way to automatically add an extension in a Mac? I can tell from her statements that she is not very sure of herself when using the computer. She does send a lot of tables, but she obviously just uses the same table over and over--but not a true template--and fills in the information as needed. She ends up with some very strange alignments within cells, but that has been easy for me to fix. MaryL "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... She would have to go to some trouble to save her Word documents without a .doc extension if she's using a Windows version, but a Mac version might well omit the extension. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "MaryL" -OUT-THE-LITTER wrote in message ... I receive a number of messages to include in our church newsletter. One woman always sends tables prepared in Word, but her documents never have extensions (*.doc or anything else). As a result, I always hae to manually "select from" programs to open them in Word. That's not a big problem, but it would be nicer if she could send them with extensions. My documents--and everyone else's who sends them to me regularly--authomatically appear with an extension, so I assume that there is some setting that needs to be changed on her copy of Word. She uses Word on a personal laptop, but that's *all* I know about her setup. I could ask questions, if additional information is needed. Can anyone tell me how she could change her settings so she will automatically have the correct extension? If possible, please include info for both Word 2003 and Word 2007 because I may need to go to her house and do this for her. Thanks, MaryL |
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Sender's Word attachments never have *.doc extension
You're probably right. It's really pretty simple to select the correct
program (Word) to use. Thanks for your help. MaryL "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I know *nothing* about Macs, but I suspect she'd either have to add the extension manually or explicitly save in "Windows" format or something other than just click Save or Save As. If she's as clueless as you suggest, it may be easier to just keeping adding the extension at your end. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "MaryL" -OUT-THE-LITTER wrote in message ... I never thought of the possibility of a Mac. I will ask her. If that is the problem, is there any way to automatically add an extension in a Mac? I can tell from her statements that she is not very sure of herself when using the computer. She does send a lot of tables, but she obviously just uses the same table over and over--but not a true template--and fills in the information as needed. She ends up with some very strange alignments within cells, but that has been easy for me to fix. MaryL "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... She would have to go to some trouble to save her Word documents without a .doc extension if she's using a Windows version, but a Mac version might well omit the extension. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "MaryL" -OUT-THE-LITTER wrote in message ... I receive a number of messages to include in our church newsletter. One woman always sends tables prepared in Word, but her documents never have extensions (*.doc or anything else). As a result, I always hae to manually "select from" programs to open them in Word. That's not a big problem, but it would be nicer if she could send them with extensions. My documents--and everyone else's who sends them to me regularly--authomatically appear with an extension, so I assume that there is some setting that needs to be changed on her copy of Word. She uses Word on a personal laptop, but that's *all* I know about her setup. I could ask questions, if additional information is needed. Can anyone tell me how she could change her settings so she will automatically have the correct extension? If possible, please include info for both Word 2003 and Word 2007 because I may need to go to her house and do this for her. Thanks, MaryL |
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