WD2000: Document to Mail Recipient Sent from Word Is Sent As HTML

• Microsoft Word 2000

SYMPTOMS

When you send a document to a mail recipient from Word (on the File menu, point to Send To, and then click Mail Recipient), regardless of your mail format settings in Outlook, the document is sent as HTML format.

CAUSE

Messages sent from Word are in HTML format, so that your recipients will not require special software to view the message.

WORKAROUND

To work around this design behavior, you can send your document as an attachment.

To send a document as an attachment in an e-mail message, do the following:

1. Open your document.



2. On the File menu, point to Send To, and then click Mail Recipient (as Attachment).

MORE INFORMATION

Similar to the way you send an e-mail message, you can send a copy of a document directly from Microsoft Word. In effect, the document is the message. This makes it easy to collaborate on a document by e-mail, because you can edit the document directly, without having to open or save an attachment.

If you send a message from Word, it is automatically sent in HTML format. If you send from Outlook, you can choose the message format (HTML, Microsoft Outlook Rich Text, or plain text).

REFERENCES

For additional information about what's new in Word 2000, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q217198 WD2000: What's New in Word 2000

Additional query words:

Keywords          : kbdta wd2000 
Version           : WINDOWS:2000
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbprb 

Last Reviewed: May 20, 1999