email attachment help!!!!!

[Guest]

I totally agree with Charlie. I had no choice because I bought a new computer
in Jan '07 and there wasn't one computer in the states of WA or OR that had
one with XP on it...so we were FORCED to have Vista...and in my opinion, it
sucks! It is really embarrassing when a prospective employer calls and says
they can't open my attachment which contains my resume. I have done
everything..."save as"...and then select Word 19967-2003 and nothing works.
What now, Mike B???

 

[Kevin Young]

Open the MS Word document you are trying to send, click on the Office
Symbol in the top left corner of Word then choose "Save as" and save as
a Word 97-2003 document. Send this new document as an attachment and
the receiver should have no problem opening it in Office 2003 or
earlier.

As Mike indicated earlier Word 2007 defaults to a document.docx format
where as Word 97-2003 use a document.doc format. If you want to change
the default in Word so that all documents will be automatically saved
using the .doc Word 97-2003 foirmat do the following:
1. Open Word
2. Click on the Office Symbol (Top left corner of screen)
3. Choose Word Options
4. Choose "Save"
5. Change the setting in the "Save Files in this Format" box
6. Click on OK

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Only alternative I can suggest is saving the document in RTF format. You
might want to repost this issue in the Microsoft Word NGs:
microsoft.public.word.general

 

[Kevin Young]

If you're having trouble sending in a doc format you may want to
download the Add-in for Office 2007 that allows you to save documents in
PDF or XPS format. This would allow you to send your resume in an Adobe
PDF format that anyone with Adobe Reader or similar program can open.
The add-on is available here:

<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...11-3e7e-4ae6-b059-a2e79ed87041&DisplayLang=en>

Once installed you simply "Save as" XPS or PDF, choose a pdf format and
send that file.

 

[Charlie Tame]

Well I am annoyed because MS have been inconsiderate with their choices
of default settings and limited choice in a system that was essentially
forced on people. MS is a very unique company and in no way do I resent
their success, however not everybody has their resources and not
everybody has access to remedies. It is not uncommon for big companies
to attend well to big customers and ignore the little guy, but guess
what, if the little guy ever gets big company status he doesn't forget
how he was treated, and this is bad for business, seen it happen a few
times.

MS are not responsible for what came "Bundled" on your machine, however
it does represent a "Sale" for them, which is better than you getting a
copy of Open Office which is free. The irony is that with the free
product you would not have had this problem in the first place, which is
caused by the fact that your resume recipients probably have an older
version of office or have chosen to use the free one. This attempt to
"Push" everybody to upgrade to Office 2007 is actually telling you you'd
be better off with the rival product and since that is free you might
have save $50 or whatever too. The marketing genius who thought this one
up needs a kick up the backside, preferably right out of the building if
not the state. Instead, you the customer get the slap in the face.

I am quite sure that people believe me to be disloyal to MS by
suggesting alternative products, but you are using an MS operating
system and it seems more logical to me to suggest things that work
against things that you might be able to make work after spending a lot
of time applying workarounds.

I suggest you have a look at Open Office and compare, you can then get
used to 2007 in your own time and maybe will prefer it. If not well MS
won;t lose a sale anyway but at least you won't have cause to be annoyed
with them.

 

[Richard Urban]

You are assuming that this problem is on the original posters end. It isn't
necessarily so!

I would bet that the O/P is sending his resume's to a few small companies
that may be using the default e-mail client, and that their e-mail client
hasn't had the box cleared (under security) that prevents opening
potentially dangerous files. Or, he could be sending to large companies that
have purposely left this limitation in place - for security.

This setting is a "good" thing for users without a great deal of knowledge,
but it is limiting. It is up the the person receiving the e-mail to remove
the limitations (if they feel comfortable doing so).

Plus anyone, who has any real computer experience at all, would send their
resume as a .zip file or as a .pdf file, which all e-mail clients can
receive (to the best of my knowledge). Then it is up to the recipient to
know how to work with these files. And, if they don't know how to handle a
resume sent to them in either a .zip or .pdf type format - I certainly
wouldn't want to work for them.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

 

[Charlie Tame]

You are assuming that this problem is on the original posters end. It
isn't necessarily so!

I would bet that the O/P is sending his resume's to a few small
companies that may be using the default e-mail client, and that their
e-mail client hasn't had the box cleared (under security) that prevents
opening potentially dangerous files. Or, he could be sending to large
companies that have purposely left this limitation in place - for security.

How likely is it that companies asking for resumes aren't smart enough
to figure out why attachments won't open? Yes you could be right but the
OP states that they were "unable to open" and also "they don't have
Vista", which I think suggests that they suspect it is something to do
with his "New" system and have possibly responded to say as much. They
probably do not know that MS has a reader for just such an occasion,
perhaps the OP could include a link to it in each email? Hadn't thought
of that.

This setting is a "good" thing for users without a great deal of
knowledge, but it is limiting. It is up the the person receiving the
e-mail to remove the limitations (if they feel comfortable doing so).

Any document format that can execute code is a risk, but if the majority
of companies feel obliged to avoid Microsoft's default formats then
maybe those defaults are badly chosen.

Plus anyone, who has any real computer experience at all, would send
their resume as a .zip file or as a .pdf file, which all e-mail clients
can receive (to the best of my knowledge). Then it is up to the
recipient to know how to work with these files. And, if they don't know
how to handle a resume sent to them in either a .zip or .pdf type
format - I certainly wouldn't want to work for them.

The OP implied that "Attachments" were received but could not be opened,
so there seems no question that the attachments were actually blocked
and that the "Format" was the problem.