My computer at work has Word program, of course, and I am able to attach documents to email by “Insert” and “file.” However, I just got a home computer and I don’t have the Word program (yet). I don’t see how I can attach documents to email on it. Is that just an option available if one has the Word program? I use “new text” to type my documents and save them in “my documents.” There are none of the nice options that Word has, such as “cut,” “copy,” or “paste.” If I were to type a lot of stuff at home, I’d definitely get Word, but I don’t.
Another question, which is not as important, but comes to mind as I wrote this, is that with the Windows ME I received some CDs, back-ups mostly, but one is a tutorial for Windows 2000. I don’t know why it was sent. But I downloaded it and it has a tutorial for “Microsoft Works,” that includes “Word.” Is Word basic to Windows 2000?
You can attach any file to an email, Word or not. The exact method depends on which email program you’re using at home. For most programs, such as Outlook Express, there’s a little paperclip icon you can click on when you’re composing a new email. That should let you browse for the file to attach – you just have to make sure that if there’s a “type of file” option you set it to “All files”. If you’re using web-based email like Hotmail you can select the “Attachments” option while you’re composing new mail.
In Outlook express, do the following to attach a document:
Compose a new mail message
(In other words, click “new mail” and fill in the recipient address
Click the tool icon that looks like a clip (if you don’t see one, choose “insert”, “file attachment” from the menu bar)
Browse on your hard drive to the “my documents” folder and double click on the file you want to attach.
When you return to your message, the file should be attached and ready to send. If you don’t see a toolbar with the paperclip on it, your toolbar may be hidden somehow. To fix this, from the menu toolbar click “new mail”, then choose “view”, “toolbars”, “standard” to turn on the standard toolbar. You should now see the paperclip icon.
Good luck!
Thanks Zette. I found it, but I had to do a couple more steps. I didn’t think I’d overlook a clip if there were one. I followed your second set of instructions, but after I got to the “Standard Button,” instead of a clip I got the “Insert” followed by “File attachment.” But you led me there by the nose. Thanks again.
Zette, If I may bother you again with one more question? Is it possible for me to drag that “Insert” onto the toolbar of Outlook Express so I won’t have to go through half a dozen steps to get to it?
Well, that depends. Did you try making that toolbar appear as I wrote out above?
That should do the trick, unless our versions are very different. Normally there’s an “Edit Toolbar” option, but I don’t see it on mine. Is there a toolbar there at all when you are composing an e-mail? (With send, cut,copy,paste, etc on it?)
Zette
Barb, any Word document can be sent as such, from Word. In M$Word, click File>Send To>Mail Recipient. It will bring OE. Fill in the address and click Send.
I’ve just started to play around with Windows 2000 [It’s on the computer at home, which is a nice place to visit…], so my answer is based more on my knowledge of older versions of Word and Works.
MS Works and MS Word are two very different programs. They’re both word processors, but the various nifty features (the “the bells and whistles”) they each come with vary a great deal. Windows ME does come with Works, but not with Word. I’d supect that the tutorial has information for users of Word switching to Works, much like Word has tutorials for [users switching from] Word Perfect and Excel has tutorials for [users switching from] Lotus.
Zette, there’s an edit toolbar with cut, copy, paste, undo, check & spelling. Cut, copy & paste are grayed out because I hadn’t selected anything. I assume I can attach some file all right. I actually haven’t tried it yet. But my new question is if I can get the “Insert” onto the toolbar directly, w/o going through the other steps. It’s not important. I really won’t be using that much. But if there be a way, I’d like to know.
Peace, I don’t have Word. I’m too cheap to buy that program and it’s not standard in ME.
If your window is not maximized, you may not see all the toolbar icons. If you see a double arrowhead on the right side of the toolbar, click on it, and it should show you the rest of the icons; “attach” should be one of those. If you maximize the window, the whole toolbar should show.
Thanks GeoBabe. It was there when I maximized. I guess after the first time I accessed it, it automatically appeared on the toolbar. Or was it there all the time? Thanks to you to Zette. Now I’m all set. I’m kinda new to all this and have yet to get the hang of certain things.
Goebabe had the right idea- it was probably there before, but when you start a “new message”, that “window” is usually not maximized, and you only get a few of your choices.
NOTE FOR LATER: If you get Office 2000, in Word, Excel, and Outlook the toolbars are “dynamic”, as you thought this one was. In other words, you may not see an icon for the action you want to perform (like “cut”, for instance). When you choose it from the “edit” menu, it magically appears on the toolbar, assuming you’ll use it again sometime soon. It is annoying as hell, and can be changed back to the traditional static (non-changing) toolbar. FYI!