Unable to use "Send To Mail Recipient as Attachment"

[Larrhol]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Under the "File" drop down menu the "Send to mail recipient as attachment" is ghosted and does not allow me to send a valid Word document. The "Send to Power Point" is available. Is there a preference setting or some other software switch I'm overlooking?
The documents are created in Word and saved as Word docs.

 

[ahostmadsen]

An alternative to "Send to mail recipient as attachment" is to drag the icon to the left of the name on top of the window to the mail icon in the dock. This will open a new message with the document attached. This works from many programs, word 2008, preview, textedit etc. I don't know if it works from word 2004, but you could try.

 

[Larrhol]

Great! It works. Thanks.

 

[MC]

An alternative to "Send to mail recipient as attachment" is to drag the icon
to the left of the name on top of the window to the mail icon in the dock.
This will open a new message with the document attached. This works from many
programs, word 2008, preview, textedit etc. I don't know if it works from
word 2004, but you could try.

I never knew that -- thank you! Very useful.

 

[CyberTaz]

That's a convenient workaround, but it doesn't address the Send To not being
available in Word. In order for that feature to work in Word 2004 you must
have one of 4 email apps set as your Default Email Client;

€ Microsoft Entourage
€ Eudora
€ Mail
€ Mailsmith

Other email clients aren't supported.

If you are using one of them & do have it set as the default then you may
need to update OS X (10.5.5 is current), Office (11.5.1), and/or Repair Disk
Permissions in order to make the feature active.

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