open e-mail with vista

[jenn]

I have a laptop, Dell, with Microsoft Office Word 2003. I typed minutes of a
meeting and then tried to e-mail them to my home computer which has Vista,
and I cannot open the e-mail. I sent the e-mail to my desktop, thinking I
could open it there, but can't. I've tried everything I know (which isn't
much) and have had no success. HELP? Any reply needs to be very specific,
and in English, not computer language. Thank you.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Which email program did you use to do the sending from that laptop?
If it was Microsoft Outlook, it tends to send attachments in a proprietary
format that only another Outlook program can understand.
When sending attachments from Outlook, make sure you use plain text format.

 

[Mick Murphy]

If you typed the minutes in a Word doc, and emailed it to your home computer,
you need Word on your home computer too, to read it..