Multi-column attachments

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MS Word multi-column attachments are sent as one-column documents. Is there a way to send and receive multi-column documents? Please help.
 
Sending attachments should in no way change the document file. If the
Word doc is formatted multi-column, when you attach it as an email as a
*.doc file, it should arrive at the receiver unchanged and formatted as
you left it. I'm not aware of any email client software (you don't say
what you are using) which will modify a Word document like this. I
don't know what the actual problem is, but it surely is not because the
Word doc was modified in anyway.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms
 
Thanks Rob
I'm using MS Office Word 2003 and Outlook 2003. I agree that sending a multi column Word document as an attachment shouldn't affect the number of columns, but it does. Anyone else have an idea?
 
I'm still dubious, sorry... But I accept what you say.

-Have you actally seen the new file on the receivers end?
-By chance have you run a test to send such an email to yourself and see
if if gets changed like this?
-Has the file date/time/size properties changed?
-Is there a macro running on the receivers end? Or on the senders side?
-When you send the mail, do you see in TAsk Manager for Word to kick in?

Hunch: Are you *writing* the email in Word as the editor? You said
"attachments", which is not the same as composing the email content
inside of Outlook. It seems that if you write in multi-column mode,
while Word seems to let you compse an HTML formatted document
multi-column, it won't stay that way in the email. Does what you say:
converts to single column. I don't know what (but can imagine that
mutlt-column is too complicated). Is this what you are doing? I didn't
try it in RTF format. If this is what you are doing, instead: compose
the email as a word DOC file then "attach" using the paper clip icon.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms
 
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