Losing macros in documents sent as attachment in emails

[kyle]

I downloaded a simple template with macros (basically just margin set-ups) in
..dot,
added some text and saved it in Word .doc. Sent as email attachment from my
XP and 2003 Word to a computer with Windows 98 and Word 2000. The macros
weren't there.

Help!

(I found a post a few months back about moving macros into an universal
template but that didn't seem to apply email attachments.)

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

See below:

I downloaded a simple template with macros (basically just margin set-ups) in
.dot,

added some text and saved it in Word .doc. Sent as email attachment from my
XP and 2003 Word to a computer with Windows 98 and Word 2000. The macros
weren't there.

Help!

(I found a post a few months back about moving macros into an universal
template but that didn't seem to apply email attachments.)

Yes, it applies. Macros are saved in templates. When you create a doc from
the template, the macros are not automatically transferred to the document.

The email attachment bit is totally irrelevant to what Word does--the email
program can only send what is in the file you give it.

Try sending the .dot instead of the .doc, or use the Organizer to copy the
macros into the document.

By the way, you are on a MacWord group, but don't appear to be using a Mac?