Greetings--
What you want to do should not be that difficult. The MIME option "might" be
for including your document within the message, itself. From what I
understood from your post, this is not what you want to do. There should be
a "File" option on Outlook Express's (or Windows Mail's) menu bar under
"Insert". If you click on it, you should be able to 'Browse' to your
document (in your "My Documents" folder, as you've reported it), select it,
then click "Open" (or whatever wording the dialog box provides), "OK" it,
and it should attach it in its native Word 2003 format. Then, all you need
do would be to click "Send", and the email message and its attachment should
be sent out. If this process is done correctly, you should see an additional
'rectangle' with your "To", "Cc", "Subject" lines, that's called "Attach"
that indicates the file you've attached, like the 'Asimov.txt' signature
file I've attached to this post (which may be removed for the list). [This
message was composed in Outlook, but the header area appears approximately
the same in Outlook and Outlook Express, at least in my experience, although
OE has now been made a 'part of' Windows Mail, and may have changed, due to
its change to a "webmail" format.] There should be no MIME or other format
choice involved in the procedure.
In short, you compose an email message; you attach a file to it, and then
send it. Unless OE has changed so radically that I've lost familiarity with
the attachment procedure, this should work.
HTH
Paul A. Shippert
Library Media Specialist
Margaret Brent Middle School
Helen MD
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Friends . . . With lots of anxiety, I finally got together a
letter-to-the-editor regarding local politics. Wrote it in Word 2003. Now
I need to attach it to an outgoing msg, and my attempts produce a
documentary mystery -- in MIME I think.
I feel sure I've seen instructions on evading this barrier, but I can't
recall anything. Could someone help? (The "letter" is now in My Documents.
I'm using WinXP Pro and, I think, Explorer 6.) I need to hurry. ---ed
Ed Nelson (from Chicago's southmost suburbs)
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