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I need to make changes to an email attachment so that i can send it back to
the author, how do I perform this task? I am using Win XP pro, with outlook
express. Many thanks for any advice.
 
Bengo said:
I need to make changes to an email attachment so that i can send it
back to the author, how do I perform this task? I am using Win XP
pro, with outlook express. Many thanks for any advice.
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Your operating system and mail-client are completely irrelevant. If you do
not have the application used to create the attachment (whatever it is) then
you're not going to be able to do much with it. Some files can be opened
with more than one application (e.g. if I was sent an Excel spreadsheet and
I didn't have Excel I could download Open Office and use that to make
changes). Others are completely proprietary (e.g. if someone sent me a
Publisher file and I didn't have Publisher there would be nothing I could do
about it (save using Word to recover the text) or if someone sent me an
Adobe PageMaker or InDesign file I couldn't do anything about it at all). If
you don't have the application used to create the file, then you can't edit
it.

Do you know what was used to create it? Probably not, or you wouldn't be
asking. If you don't know, then you should be asking the sender. Then again,
if you don't know you (probably) don't have any means of editing it.
 
I need to make changes to an email attachment so that i can send it back to
the author, how do I perform this task? I am using Win XP pro, with outlook
express. Many thanks for any advice.
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What sort of attachment? Picture? - Document? - what format is it in?
(file extension type?)
 
| I need to make changes to an email attachment so that i can send it back
to
| the author, how do I perform this task? I am using Win XP pro, with
outlook
| express. Many thanks for any advice.
|

Follow these instructions in the order given:

1) Open the attachments
2) Make your changes
3) Save the attachment
4) Send it back
 
Raymond said:
Follow these instructions in the order given:

1) Open the attachments
2) Make your changes
3) Save the attachment
4) Send it back
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Ray,

I appreciate you're attempting to help, but how can he open the attachment
if he doesn't have any means of doing so?
 
Many thanks for your responses, but I ought to have said that of course I
can open the attachment (it's a word document), I'm not that stupid. What I
wanted to do is to save the attachment in a word file so that I didn't have
to work on it whilst it was in OE. The reason being that if I fouled up the
thing I could always return to the original text in OE. I tried saving it to
My computer, and it appeared there without any problem, but I couldn't work
on it. That's why I posted he message. Can you help me out now? Thanks.
 
Bengo said:
Many thanks for your responses, but I ought to have said that of
course I can open the attachment (it's a word document), I'm not that
stupid. What I wanted to do is to save the attachment in a word file
so that I didn't have to work on it whilst it was in OE. The reason
being that if I fouled up the thing I could always return to the
original text in OE. I tried saving it to My computer, and it
appeared there without any problem, but I couldn't work on it. That's
why I posted he message. Can you help me out now? Thanks.
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You're /still/ not making much sense. You don't "work on it while it's in
OE" you use whatever application was used to create the attachment to open
it (if you don't want to risk buggering up the original, simply stick the
words 'copy of' in front of the filename and save it as a copy - then you
work on the copy and either merge the changes into the original, or email
the copy back to the sender - this implies it is a Word document, you
mentioned Word so I assumed).
 
You're /still/ not making much sense. You don't "work on it while it's in
OE" you use whatever application was used to create the attachment to open
it (if you don't want to risk buggering up the original, simply stick the
words 'copy of' in front of the filename and save it as a copy - then you
work on the copy and either merge the changes into the original, or email
the copy back to the sender - this implies it is a Word document, you
mentioned Word so I assumed).
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Um, what I think Bengo means is that he/she can click to "open" the
attachment and as a result OE opens a *temporary* copy of Word for the
document.

If Bengo were to click on the "paperclip" attachments icon he/she can
either open or save the attachment to do with it whatever he/she wants
to.

Cheers,

Cliff
 
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