excel table embedded in a word doc loses formatting when emailed

[Trevor the pension guy]

I spent some time getting a few excel tables formatted j-u-s-t right within a
word 2003 document, only to find out after I sent the document as a word
attachment in an email that the formatting was lost when the recipient opened
the attachment. How do I lock down the formatting so that this won't happen?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I spent some time getting a few excel tables formatted j-u-s-t right
within a word 2003 document, only to find out after I sent the
document as a word attachment in an email that the formatting was
lost when the recipient opened the attachment. How do I lock down the
formatting so that this won't happen?

Outlook shouldn't change the contents and layout of an attachment. How did
you perform the attach? In what format did you compose your message?

 

[Trevor the pension guy]

Within Word I selected 'file' , 'send to' 'as an attachment'. In checking the
file format it is currently set to HTML.

tks

 

[Brian Tillman]

Within Word I selected 'file' , 'send to' 'as an attachment'. In
checking the file format it is currently set to HTML.

Don't send it from Word. Send it from Outlook, dragging it to a plain text
message.