LKBEN11141: How to send your document as E-mail from OpenOffice


Symptom

You need to send some document as email.

Cause

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Solution

It is possible to send a document to someone as email within OpenOffice.

All you need to do is to go to File > Send > Document as email. OpenOffice will take a snapshot of your current document, and then start up a "compose new mail" window from your default mail program and attach the snapshot as a attachment. All you need to do is just enter the email address and click send.
You can choose to attach the document as OpenOffice document (.odt), Microsoft words doc (.doc) or as PDF file (.PDF). OpenOffice will automatically convert the snapshot to the format you want.

Note: In addition, the file format uses ZIP compression by default, which makes the attachment file small and compact.

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About the Author

Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.

Latest update: 05/10/2020 | Comment: