Microsoft KB Archive/210337

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

Article ID: 210337

Article Last Modified on 12/6/2000

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q210337



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).

