Sending emails with a word document attached

[swiftandabundant]

So maybe Im a complete idiot. I don't know where else to ask about this. I have Mac Office with Word. I have a resume that Im trying to email out for jobs. I attach it to my email (I use gmail) and send it but the recipients keep saying they can't open it. One person told me it opened as a Quicktime movie. This makes no sense. I created the resume with word, I attach it as a word document. But then, when I go to my sent folder and look at the attachment, it doesn't appear as a word document. Its just this blank document. When I open it, it opens in word, so I don't see what the problem is, but for some reason other people who get it, its not a word document. Is this a gmail thing? A word thing? Am I a complete idiot? Help!

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Do a File | Save As, and be sure to check the "append file extension"
box. Then it ought to show the proper icon and other programs will
better know what to do with it.

 

[CyberTaz]

Another suggestion: In this day & age I see nothing but potential
disadvantage in handing over an editable copy of one's resume to a
prospective employer... Send 'em a PDF - it's safer, less prone to
distortion, and far more likely to arrive in usable form.

Either way - doc or PDF - it would also be a good idea to zip the attachment
first. Just a simple Control/Right-Click of the doc icon in a Finder window
to StuffIt's Zip & Mail command.

 

[Phillip Jones]

And if your using the new Office2008 for Mac you can *Save As* PDF
directly through the Save As Menu choice and much faster I might add
than doing it through the little Adobe Printer menu added by adobe.

Another suggestion: In this day & age I see nothing but potential
disadvantage in handing over an editable copy of one's resume to a
prospective employer... Send 'em a PDF - it's safer, less prone to
distortion, and far more likely to arrive in usable form.

Either way - doc or PDF - it would also be a good idea to zip the attachment
first. Just a simple Control/Right-Click of the doc icon in a Finder window
to StuffIt's Zip & Mail command.

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