read only attachment

[Guest]

I have a question about the attachment in the email.
I try to attach WORD or EXCEL files in the email to my boss.
After I sent the email to my boss, these attachments become read only files
in
my boss' email box.
In my computer, I am sure the files I sent are not read-only before or after
I sent the files.
How can I solve this problem.
I can not ask my boss to do anything, like saving the file first or sth.
So how can I do to let him get non read-only files?
Thanks.

 

[Vanguard]

I have a question about the attachment in the email.
I try to attach WORD or EXCEL files in the email to my boss.
After I sent the email to my boss, these attachments become read only
files
in
my boss' email box.
In my computer, I am sure the files I sent are not read-only before or
after
I sent the files.
How can I solve this problem.
I can not ask my boss to do anything, like saving the file first or
sth.
So how can I do to let him get non read-only files?
Thanks.

MIME sections within the text body of an e-mail have no means to set a
read-only file attribute - because it isn't a file yet (i.e., you have
to save the MIME part denoting an "attachment" before it becomes a file
and can then have the read-only attribute set on it). So your boss is
saving it somewhere that makes it read-only. Your boss will have to fix
that problem, or get the IT to do his work for him.

Of course, maybe what you really meant to ask was a Word or Excel
question and NOT an Outlook (e-mail) question, like you configured Word
to set the document to read-only mode so that's what your boss got when
he opened it (i.e., the read-only action is a Word thing, not a file
system thing). Guess you'll have to wander through Word's options
looking for whatever allow you to set your documents to read-only (which
only applies within Word itself when viewing that document). In that
case, you'll probably do better asking in a Word group on where is the
option that you haven't found yet that configures your .doc files to be
read-only when someone else views them in Word. There are newsgroups
for Word.