"Send As" add-in for Word?
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From: Gordon on 19 Mar 2010 09:08 Open Office has a really good feature in that you can do a "Send As" a Microsoft Word 97-2003 document with no reference to the format of the document that is being edited. This would be a really good feature for Office 2007 and upwards because it doesn't affect the base document format at all. This means that (for example) I can open a docx document and do a "Send As" ..doc document without having to do a "Save As" first. Does anyone know of an add-in that could replicate such a feature?
From: Graham Mayor on 19 Mar 2010 09:23 Word 2007 already includes this ability. Set the default save format as Word 97-2003 document format and Use Send > E-Mail. -- <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> "Gordon" <gordonbparker(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:ODwPDV2xKHA.2552(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Open Office has a really good feature in that you can do a "Send As" a > Microsoft Word 97-2003 document with no reference to the format of the > document that is being edited. > This would be a really good feature for Office 2007 and upwards because it > doesn't affect the base document format at all. > This means that (for example) I can open a docx document and do a "Send > As" .doc document without having to do a "Save As" first. > > Does anyone know of an add-in that could replicate such a feature?
From: Gordon on 19 Mar 2010 09:43 "Graham Mayor" <gmayor(a)REMOVETHISmvps.org> wrote in message news:eyLwbd2xKHA.5936(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Word 2007 already includes this ability. Set the default save format as > Word 97-2003 document format and Use Send > E-Mail. > That's not /quite/ what I meant. What I mean is, I like to keep all my documents as .docx documents. There are people I know who cannot install the Compatibility pack and use 2003. (Corporate users). This means that I have to do a "Save As" into .doc format before I send a document to them. What Open Office has is a function that does "Send As .doc format" - no matter whether the original is .odt or .docx. The original document is unaltered, there are no duplicate documents in different formats, and I can use the document format I want, not what is dictated by other users. Hope that's a bit clearer!
From: Graham Mayor on 19 Mar 2010 10:28 The document will have to be saved in order to attach it. Whether you save it manually or by using a built-in function as in OpenOffice or transparently by using a macro to emulate that is really immaterial. The following will send docx format documents as doc format attachments. Sub Send_As_Mail_Attachment() ' send the document as an attachment _ in an Outlook Email message Dim bStarted As Boolean Dim oOutlookApp As Outlook.Application Dim oItem As Outlook.MailItem Dim sDocName As String, sFname As String On Error Resume Next 'Prompt the user to save the document ActiveDocument.Save sFname = ActiveDocument.FullName sDocName = Left(sFname, InStr(1, sFname, ".doc")) 'Save as DOC format ActiveDocument.SaveAs sDocName & "doc", wdFormatDocument97 'Get Outlook if it's running Set oOutlookApp = GetObject(, "Outlook.Application") 'Outlook wasn't running, start it from code If Err <> 0 Then Set oOutlookApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application") bStarted = True End If 'Create a new mailitem Set oItem = oOutlookApp.CreateItem(olMailItem) With oItem .Attachments.Add Source:=ActiveDocument.FullName, _ Type:=olByValue, DisplayName:="Document as attachment" .Display End With 'Clean up 'Close the doc format document (you could delete it too if required) ActiveDocument.Close 'Re-open the docx format document Documents.Open sFname Set oItem = Nothing Set oOutlookApp = Nothing End Sub -- <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> "Gordon" <gordonbparker(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:ejnvYo2xKHA.4240(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > > "Graham Mayor" <gmayor(a)REMOVETHISmvps.org> wrote in message > news:eyLwbd2xKHA.5936(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> Word 2007 already includes this ability. Set the default save format as >> Word 97-2003 document format and Use Send > E-Mail. >> > > That's not /quite/ what I meant. What I mean is, I like to keep all my > documents as .docx documents. There are people I know who cannot install > the Compatibility pack and use 2003. (Corporate users). This means that I > have to do a "Save As" into .doc format before I send a document to them. > What Open Office has is a function that does "Send As .doc format" - no > matter whether the original is .odt or .docx. The original document is > unaltered, there are no duplicate documents in different formats, and I > can use the document format I want, not what is dictated by other users. > > Hope that's a bit clearer!
From: Yves Dhondt on 19 Mar 2010 14:21 That is actually a really bad idea. Saving a document in a different format tends to slightly alter the layout of the document. After all, each format has its own set of unique features not supported by other formats. Blindly saving the document and sending it without verifying the layout might leave you very embarrassed one day. Yves "Gordon" <gordonbparker(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:ODwPDV2xKHA.2552(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Open Office has a really good feature in that you can do a "Send As" a > Microsoft Word 97-2003 document with no reference to the format of the > document that is being edited. > This would be a really good feature for Office 2007 and upwards because it > doesn't affect the base document format at all. > This means that (for example) I can open a docx document and do a "Send > As" .doc document without having to do a "Save As" first. > > Does anyone know of an add-in that could replicate such a feature?
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