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Inability to open openoffice calc document to attach to an email
I use Windows 7, home version, and have Open Office 4.0.1. I used Open
Office Calc to download an Excel document and was able to write on it as
well as save it but it would not open from my documents in order to attach
it and send it VIA email. Do I have to have my email linked with Open
Office--there was a message to that effect. If so, where is there
information on how to do that?
Thanks so much!
RE: Inability to open openoffice calc document to attach to an email
Posted by "Dennis E. Hamilton" <de...@acm.org>.
In addition to the methods that Alexandro suggests, another way to tell whether you have a registered e-mail client is to right-click on the file in you Documents folder and see what are the available options for "Send to". If there is a "Mail recipient" choice, try that. If not, or it says you have to designate a mail client, then you know.
If you do your e-mail in your browser, and do not or have not set up a Mail Client on Windows 7 itself (one might be included), you can do it from Google Mail instead. In your browser e-mail when you are composing a message to send, see what is available for Adding an Attachment. In Google Mail, that is the paper-clip symbol at the bottom of the "New Message" Window to the right of the Blue "Send" button. That will bring up a file folder window. Use that to navigate to where your file is and select it. It will be added to the message you are composing as an attachment.
- Dennis
PS: There are e-mail clients that run on the desktop that you can connect to your Gmail account. There should be one with Windows 7 (although I forget now if it is already there). It might just be named "Mail." You don't have to read your mail with it if you don't want to, but you can use it to send mail anyhow.
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From: acolorado@gmail.com [mailto:acolorado@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Alexandro Colorado
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 16:49
To: users@openoffice.apache.org
Cc: RheaAnna Rhodes
Subject: Re: Inability to open openoffice calc document to attach to an email
Sure, our documents ont he wiki has some:
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Administration_Guide/Accessing_Email_Clients
On 11/11/14, RheaAnna Rhodes <rh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I use Windows 7, home version, and have Open Office 4.0.1. I used Open
> Office Calc to download an Excel document and was able to write on it as
> well as save it but it would not open from my documents in order to attach
> it and send it VIA email. Do I have to have my email linked with Open
> Office--there was a message to that effect. If so, where is there
> information on how to do that?
>
> Thanks so much!
>
--
Alexandro Colorado
Apache OpenOffice Contributor
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Re: Inability to open openoffice calc document to attach to an email
Posted by Alexandro Colorado <jz...@oooes.org>.
Sure, our documents ont he wiki has some:
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Administration_Guide/Accessing_Email_Clients
On 11/11/14, RheaAnna Rhodes <rh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I use Windows 7, home version, and have Open Office 4.0.1. I used Open
> Office Calc to download an Excel document and was able to write on it as
> well as save it but it would not open from my documents in order to attach
> it and send it VIA email. Do I have to have my email linked with Open
> Office--there was a message to that effect. If so, where is there
> information on how to do that?
>
> Thanks so much!
>
--
Alexandro Colorado
Apache OpenOffice Contributor
882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9 5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614
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Re: Inability to open openoffice calc document to attach to an
email
Posted by Brian Barker <b....@btinternet.com>.
At 16:57 11/11/2014 -0700, RheaAnna Rhodes wrote:
>I use Windows 7, home version, and have Open Office 4.0.1. I used
>Open Office Calc to download an Excel document and was able to write
>on it as well as save it but it would not open from my documents in
>order to attach it and send it VIA email. Do I have to have my email
>linked with Open Office--there was a message to that effect. If so,
>where is there information on how to do that?
If you saw that message, it seems that you could, in fact, open the
document file but that you had difficulty using File | Send > |
Document as E-mail... (or similar). This facility relies on your
having a mail client (an e-mailing program) actually on your PC. I
see that you are using Gmail and there is no identification of any
mail client in the headers of your message, so I'm guessing that you
are using the web interface to Gmail. There is no way to associate
the facility in OpenOffice with such a web interface, I'm afraid.
But there is no problem: all you have to do is to save the document
somewhere convenient and then use the facility provided in Gmail to
attach the document file to a message there. There are reasons why
you may find this more convenient anyway. You will want to save a
spreadsheet document, for example, in OpenOffice's native Open
Document Format format, .ods, for your own future use. But you may
sometimes need to accommodate your recipient - if they need to edit
the document further - by saving a copy in Microsoft Excel's .xls
format, or - if they need just to read or print the document - by
exporting a copy as PDF. In such a case, you may wish to keep a copy
of the version you intend to send and even to review it before you
send it. If so, then attaching the file to a message in the Gmail web
interface is no inconvenience.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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