email problems

moonpenny

Could someone tell me what I am doing wrong?

I made an Invoice from scratch in "Word" (I have Windows 7) using text boxes and spreadsheet. (I only have the "Home" version)
I then saved it to my desktop.

I want to send the Invoice by email but when i did a practice run to a relative, it opens as a new blank page in "Word" and from that, can open all my other docs.

Why is it doing this and why can't I just send the one document?

Any help please!

esuhl

moonpenny wrote: »

I want to send the Invoice by email but when i did a practice run to a relative, it opens as a new blank page in "Word" and from that, can open all my other docs.

Are you sure you saved the invoice before trying to attach it? If you open the file now, do you see the invoice or the "new blank page"? Are there multiple files open in Word -- one of which is the new document and one being the invoice?

And what do you mean when you say that from the blank document, you can "open all your other documents"...? Surely your relative can't access all your documents from a single Word file you sent?! (If so, I can understand why you're puzzled!)

moonpenny

I definately saved it and I see the Invoice when I open.

It says I need to set up an "association" in the Default programs Control Panel but Have no idea how to do this.

Have looked in the Control Panel but can't see anything about this.

If anyone knows anything about this , would you let me know (step by step) how to do it. Surely I won't have to do stuff like this every time I send an attatchment?

-TangleFoot-

moonpenny wrote: »

It says I need to set up an "association" in the Default programs Control Panel but Have no idea how to do this.

Are you attempting to email the document from within Word? It won't work that way out-of-the-box because Windows 7 lacks an email client.

How do you normally access your email account?

esuhl

moonpenny wrote: »

It says I need to set up an "association" in the Default programs Control Panel but Have no idea how to do this.

File types are identified by the filename extension (i.e. the bit after the dot in the filename). So whatever.doc is a Word Document, file.txt is a plain text file, thingy.mp3 is an MP3 file, etc.

Windows associates certain file extensions with certain default applications. So... if you double-click thingy.mp33, Windows will run whatever default application is set for MP3 files (Windows Media Player, VLC, Foobar, Winamp, etc.) and tell it to open thingy.mp3.

The easiest way to set up a file association is to find a file of the relevant type, right-click it, select "Open with..." (in Windows XP you might have to hold down shift whilst right-clicking to see the "open with" option) and then "Choose default program...".

I'm still not quite sure what you're trying to do (or what has happened), though...

-TangleFoot-

esuhl wrote: »

I'm still not quite sure what you're trying to do (or what has happened), though...

Default Programs also tells Windows what your default protocol handlers are. Windows 7 doesn't have one for MAILTO, so it asks you to tell it where to look whenever you try to compose a message.

I think it can be configured to use webmail though...

ianders

What version of Word are you using? If it's a newer version (>2007) then I'd recommend using the File > Save As and changing the type of document to PDF.

Then try sending the PDF as attachment.

moonpenny

ianders wrote: »

What version of Word are you using? If it's a newer version (>2007) then I'd recommend using the File > Save As and changing the type of document to PDF.

Then try sending the PDF as attachment.

Thanks so much! It's 2007 I am using and changed it to PDF as you sugested and I think it's worked :T