Maintain Format when I send a MS Word document by E-mail

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I send a report from A Family Tree software to MS Word. When I send this
report by e-mail on Outlook Express the format is not maintained when it is
received. The attachment reads OK when I view it in my e-mail file. How can I
send this report and maintain the Format?
 
Hi Charles,

What formatting changes are you especially concerned about?

There may be different issues:

-- View, zoom, formatting marks on/off, ... are controlled by the receiver (which I consider a GoodThingâ„¢).

-- If you don't use standard fonts, the fonts may be missing on the recipient's machine, and other fonts may be substituted. Some fonts can be embedded, but that can create other problems (such as the receiver not being able to edit the document).

-- The printer driver can have some influence on line and page breaks and the layout (because Word only creates stuff the printer driver can handle, and that may be different for different printers, or even different drivers for the same printer).

-- If the receiver uses a lower version of Word, or WordPad, or another text processor, that program may not be able to handle some new features.

You might consider creating a PDF file if you have access to Adobe Acrobat, or try some web service or freeware to create a PDF. You get more or less pictures of your pages, which you cannot easily change/edit any longer, but which also don't change the way a Word doc does.

Regards,
Klaus
 
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