Chris
Before opening the document from an email, they should right-click and save
the attachment to a local drive first. However, it is possible that doc
attachments are being corrupted during transmission. The best solution for
this is to use WinZip to zip the files before attaching to the email. Zipped
files seem much more robust (as well as being much smaller than docs). If
you email regularly, WinZip would be a good (cheap) investment.
: Hi Again,
:
: Thanks for your feedback ... you mentioned that the file
: will definately be corrupted if they are opened or closed
: from a removable media ... does this apply to Emailing
: the document? As it seems that the Word 2000 people
: sometimes have problems opening our documents from Email ?
:
: I will try your solution re "Recommended Options for Word
: 2000" but is there a patch that the Word 2000 users can
: load to get around this (the project team has around 60
: people and it could be a difficult one to manage).
:
: Chris
:
:
: >-----Original Message-----
: >For the most part, documents created in Word 2002 should
: work fine in Word
: >2000, losing only features that are specific to Word
: 2002. Even then, the
: >document is fine, you simply don't see something you
: might've seen in Word
: >2002.
: >
: >But, to be sure, in Word 2002, you can choose Tools -
: Options -
: >Compatibility, and set Recommended Options for Word
: 2000. Also, in Tools -
: >Options - Save, check Disable Features Introduced After
: Microsoft Word 97.
: >That would guarantee that formatting isn't the issue.
: >
: >A common problem occurs, however, if documents are saved
: *from Word*
: >directly to removable media such as floppies and zip
: disks, or if they are
: >opened directly from removable media. If that's what
: you're doing, then
: >documents are practically guaranteed to get corrupted.
: If you're using
: >removable media to transfer files, then save/close the
: file in Word, and
: >then use Windows Explorer to copy the file to the
: removable media. When
: >opening the files on the other machine, the same rules
: apply in reverse. Use
: >Windows Explorer to copy the files, then have Word open
: them from the hard
: >disk, not from the removable media.
: >
: >--
: >Herb Tyson MS MVP
: >Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow
: along.
: >
http://www.herbtyson.com
: >: >> Hi,
: >>
: >> We are currently working on a project where we have two
: >> companies sharing documents.
: >>
: >> We use Word 2002 and the other company uses Word 2000
: >>
: >> The problem we have is the documents we create in Word
: >> 2002 seem to become corrupted when opened and/or edited
: >> in Word 2000.
: >>
: >> Sometimes the people using Word 2000 cannot even open
: the
: >> documents from Word 2002
: >>
: >> Any assistance will be greatly received
: >> Chris
: >>
: >>
: >>
: >
: >
: >.
: >
