Sending attachments

[djminusa]

I am operating the Mac Office 2008 home/student software. When I send a Word document as an attachment to a PC using Mac Mail version 3.1 and the PC using XP professional as an operating system, the message comes out as mish-mash on the PC. I had no problem sending attachments in the past using the Mac Office 2004 to the same PC. How can I correct this situation? Thank you.

 

[CyberTaz]

It's nothing you're doing *wrong* - the damage is being done either in
transit or on the receiving end It could further be compounded if the
recipient isn't using Office 2007 since 2007/2008 use a totally different
file format than previous versions. Without technical elaboration, only one
piece of the puzzle is getting opened.

If you aren't sure the recipient is running 2007, save your files in a .doc
format (Word 97-2003) instead of the .docx format. Unfortunately that may
limit some of what you can include in the file.

Either way, you'll be better off putting the file(s) in a folder, zipping
the folder & sending the zipped package rather than the raw file.