Probs emailing my list

[marker]

Hi all a bit of help needed I have a new pc running vista I downloaded open office as my word 2000 would not work on vista.

I then typed out my list as a text doc in open office so far so good but when I want to send the list by email and add it as an attachment the recipient cant open it !! can someone help me on this I never had this prob with word and xp. all help appreciated

[Steve Crook]

name='marker']Hi all a bit of help needed I have a new pc running vista I downloaded open office as my word 2000 would not work on vista.

I then typed out my list as a text doc in open office so far so good but when I want to send the list by email and add it as an attachment the recipient cant open it !! can someone help me on this I never had this prob with word and xp. all help appreciated

That's your first mistake, getting a machine with Vista on it. There are lots of problems reported with it. Can you change it for a system running XP?



Did you save the file as a text file and try to attach it or try to copy and paste it into the email or did you try to email it from within Word?



Steve

[mallee59]

what was the file extension of the list you saved?

I used openoffice some years ago and think there is a choice of file extensions to save it as, ie word is usually .doc

Might be the problem

Mallee

[cornershop15]

Good luck, Marker (from a fellow Public Eye fan). Hope you sort this problem out soon.

[marker]

Many thanks for replies I managed to send the typed list from Open Office to Notepad on Vista ok its just very plain text but works fine for my list of stuff for me simple is Best

[jaycad]

i had the same problem with vista-i now have my list as a draft on my e-mail which i just copy and paste into an e-mail and it's much faster to edit.

[marker]

name='jaycad']i had the same problem with vista-i now have my list as a draft on my e-mail which i just copy and paste into an e-mail and it's much faster to edit.

It seems to me where computers are concerned there are many ways of skinning a cat

[darrenburnfan]

I have a similar problem with Vista on this new Laptop I access the Internet with and that I've had since last November. If, for instance, I want to copy and paste something I've written from my documents folder into the message box on the Britmovie Forum, all I have to do is press ctrl and V and it pastes in. But if I use the same method to copy and paste into my email box, a message comes on the screen saying that Internet Explorer is closing down and so it does and I have to log on again. Very odd.



Vista was already on the Laptop when I bought it. I never had any problems like this when I was accessing the Internet on my old computer which ran on XP. But my old computer wasn't Broadband compatible (too out of date to have the right USB ports on it), which is why I had to buy this new computer. Oddly enough, if I want to copy and paste some text from the Internet into an email, it works fine. It just won't copy and paste from My Documents.

[Steve Crook]

Everyone has problems with Vista. It was only half finished when they released it and they've since given up on it because they've moved on to their next system.



I'm due to get a new laptop soon and my most important requirement was NOT VISTA!



Steve

[marker]

name='Steve Crook']Everyone has problems with Vista. It was only half finished when they released it and they've since given up on it because they've moved on to their next system.



I'm due to get a new laptop soon and my most important requirement was NOT VISTA!



Steve

Well if Vista is not too good what will the new 7 they have just released be like I see PC World and Currys are pushing it with buy it now for only £49 perhaps I had better run out and buy it quick

[Steve Crook]

name='marker']Well if Vista is not too good what will the new 7 they have just released be like I see PC World and Currys are pushing it with buy it now for only £49 perhaps I had better run out and buy it quick

Judging by recent experience, '7' should be OK

"NT" was OK

"2000" was only half finished

"XP" was OK

"Vista" was only half finished

"7" should be OK



You can always get you Vista machine changed back to XP



Steve