Mail Recipient (as Attachment) is greyed out in Word 2004

[HMB]

Version: 2004 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel When I choose File > Send To > Mail Recipient (as Attachment) in MS Word, Mail Recipient (as Attachment) is greyed out. I was able to use this feature before. How can I get this option back?

FYI, I am able to email attachments from Firefox and photos from iPhoto, so I assume Word is the problem.

I'm using iMac OS X, Version 10.5.8 and have downloaded all Word updates.

Thank you.
HMB

 

[John McGhie]

Most applications call the "default email client" to send their files by
attachment. That will always work.

Microsoft products call only the Microsoft email client (Entourage) to send
email. If Entourage is not your default email program, the "option will be
greyed out in Word.

It's an irritating hang-over from the days before social media, when
software companies did not understand just how much damage to their
reputation they do by attempting "push marketing" and "lock in".

I would expect this to change in the next version.

Hope this helps

Version: 2004 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel When
I choose File > Send To > Mail Recipient (as Attachment) in MS Word, Mail
Recipient (as Attachment) is greyed out. I was able to use this feature
before. How can I get this option back?

FYI, I am able to email attachments from Firefox and photos from iPhoto, so I
assume Word is the problem.

I'm using iMac OS X, Version 10.5.8 and have downloaded all Word updates.

Thank you.
HMB

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[Michel Bintener]

Hi John,

Microsoft products call only the Microsoft email client (Entourage) to send
email. If Entourage is not your default email program, the "option will be
greyed out in Word.

This is not quite true. The "Send as Attachment" menu works with most
e-mail applications, including Apple Mail. Only the "Send as HTML
message" menu is not available if Entourage is not defined as the
default e-mail application.

I have no idea why the option could be greyed out, though.

 

[CyberTaz]

How about if whatever email app is set as the default is not configured for
use?... Just guessing

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[HMB]

How about if whatever email app is set as the >default is not configured for use?

I am able to email attachments from Firefox and photos from iPhoto, so the mail app should be right.

Thank you.
HMB

 

[HMB]

Microsoft products call only the Microsoft email client (Entourage) to send

> email. If Entourage is not your default email program, the "option will be
> greyed out in Word.

BUT ... I've been using Word 2004 for several years and, until recently, have never had a problem sending attachments.

HMB

 

[sbkanel]

Sorry to dredge up an old thread, but was the consensus that Word will only send an attachment through Entourage and not even through Mac Mail?