Trying to get Vista to do 1 thing...

[Guest]

I have a brand new computer with the pre-installed Vista Premium,
I have Office 2003 installed (because I am NOT spedning $600+ dollars for
any more Office programs - ever)


I thought the least Vista could do is send a DOC file as an attachment via
email - but nope. Even that is crippled and, the so-called help file that
pops up is usless as none of the fixes in there work either and the link to
"more information" results in even less information - that is, none
available. I would copy & paste the erors and fix text but too is not allowed
in Vista.

Has anyone got Outlook, Outlook Express or any email program to work with
Vista in sending Doc files from Word as email attachments without, Save As,
open Outlook, write email, find file, attach file - send? Thart's how we use
to do it in Win 95! Hasn't Vista grown up?

BTW,
Vista will also not let me use 95% of my XP programs, network with XP simply
and aseemlessly, network at all with Win98SE comps, share my printer, let me
install anything without getting through so many stiupid 'are you really,
trully absolutely positively certain!' and neitehr will it recognize half the
hardware that is easily instaleld on XP and even some on 98SE. Damn - it
can't even do a simple file attach!

 

[John Locke]

I have a brand new computer with the pre-installed Vista Premium,
I have Office 2003 installed (because I am NOT spedning $600+ dollars for
any more Office programs - ever)


I thought the least Vista could do is send a DOC file as an attachment via
email - but nope. Even that is crippled and, the so-called help file that
pops up is usless as none of the fixes in there work either and the link to
"more information" results in even less information - that is, none
available. I would copy & paste the erors and fix text but too is not allowed
in Vista.

Has anyone got Outlook, Outlook Express or any email program to work with
Vista in sending Doc files from Word as email attachments without, Save As,
open Outlook, write email, find file, attach file - send? Thart's how we use
to do it in Win 95! Hasn't Vista grown up?

BTW,
Vista will also not let me use 95% of my XP programs, network with XP simply
and aseemlessly, network at all with Win98SE comps, share my printer, let me
install anything without getting through so many stiupid 'are you really,
trully absolutely positively certain!' and neitehr will it recognize half the
hardware that is easily instaleld on XP and even some on 98SE. Damn - it
can't even do a simple file attach!

This might help you:

Running Office 2003 on Windows Vista and running other applications
that work on Windows XP on Vista

I seem to be being asked this question a lot, so I thought I would
blog the answer. The short answer is yes, you can run Office 2003 on
Windows Vista. For that matter, you can run many other applications
on Windows Vista too.

Lets start from the top - most Windows applications run unmodified
under Windows Vista. Some have been designed to, others have been
certified to ensure they do. Details of this list can be found at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933305 and includes products like
Office 2003 (and 2007) and so on including those by Corel and so on.
There is also then community maintained lists, such as
http://www.iexbeta.com/wiki/index.php/Windows_Vista_Software_Compatibility_List
for software that people believes does or does not work.

Should you get a program that will not run in Vista then there are a
number of features that continue to enhance the ability to run
untested / older software on your PC. The simplest of these is the
"compatibility tab" where you can go and choose compatibility mode or
OS version you wish to run the application as.

On the same page will be options to change screen resolution, always
run as an administrator, disable visual themes, dpi scaling and
desktop composition.

You might also find this tab is grayed out - normally due to the fact
that the program is not linked to a .exe, but to a MSI install (e.g.
the office applications). To get round this you may have to create a
new shortcut linking to the actual exe file required. If you don't
know how to do this - start the application, open up Windows Task
manager (press Ctrl-Shift+Esc) and go to the process, then right click
on it and select properties - this should help you.

If this fails, which is might to occasionally for those rarer
applications there are several things to do. One, let Windows Vista
sends back the error report so we are aware of it - that way we can
fix it if the issue is in Vista, or work with the application vendor
to get it fixed. The next route of attack to solve this problem is to
use the diagnostic tools we provide
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927386) and if that fails, the
application compatibility toolkit (which is more for business). I
would start looking at pages like
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/aa905066.aspx and
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/aa904987.aspx. After
all this, download a copy of VPC 2007
(http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/virtualpc/default.mspx)
and see if this can help you.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

I have a brand new computer with the pre-installed Vista Premium,
I have Office 2003 installed (because I am NOT spedning $600+ dollars for
any more Office programs - ever)


I thought the least Vista could do is send a DOC file as an attachment via
email - but nope. Even that is crippled and, the so-called help file that
pops up is usless as none of the fixes in there work either and the link to
"more information" results in even less information - that is, none
available. I would copy & paste the erors and fix text but too is not allowed
in Vista.

Has anyone got Outlook, Outlook Express or any email program to work with
Vista in sending Doc files from Word as email attachments without, Save As,
open Outlook, write email, find file, attach file - send? Thart's how we use
to do it in Win 95! Hasn't Vista grown up?

I just tried this from Word 2003: File, Send To, Mail Recipient.
Worked great. Incidentally, my default email program is Windows Mail.

 

[Justin]

Just in case anyone else was wondering...the same goes with Office 2007.
Works fine.

When I set the default mail app to OE, Word opens OE.
When I set the default mail app to Outlook, Word opens Outlook.

 

[Dave]

I can send a .doc as an email attachment from Word, if my default mail
program is WinMail.
It won't work if the default is set to Thunderbird. I get an error message
about needing Exchange Server.

 

[Lou]

I have a brand new computer with the pre-installed Vista Premium,
I have Office 2003 installed (because I am NOT spedning $600+ dollars for
any more Office programs - ever)


I thought the least Vista could do is send a DOC file as an attachment via
email - but nope. Even that is crippled and, the so-called help file that
pops up is usless as none of the fixes in there work either and the link to
"more information" results in even less information - that is, none
available. I would copy & paste the erors and fix text but too is not allowed
in Vista.

Has anyone got Outlook, Outlook Express or any email program to work with
Vista in sending Doc files from Word as email attachments without, Save As,
open Outlook, write email, find file, attach file - send? Thart's how we use
to do it in Win 95! Hasn't Vista grown up?

BTW,
Vista will also not let me use 95% of my XP programs, network with XP simply
and aseemlessly, network at all with Win98SE comps, share my printer, let me
install anything without getting through so many stiupid 'are you really,
trully absolutely positively certain!' and neitehr will it recognize half the
hardware that is easily instaleld on XP and even some on 98SE. Damn - it
can't even do a simple file attach!

From within Word 2000, selecting File->Send TO->Mail Recipient works
fine using Eudora 7.5

Lou

 

[Lou]

From within Word 2000, selecting File->Send TO->Mail Recipient works
fine using Eudora 7.5

Lou

Misspoke. It should read Eudora 7.1.0.9

Lou