[AWR]

Yes, it's an emergency per se; no one is injured but I need to attach a work document created in MS Word for Mac to an email and it ain't working.

I am using Gmail, with which I have had no problem attaching pictures, videos, etc. Now that I am trying to attach a Word document with some importance, I get problems: specifically, the attached Word document is not openable on the other end as a Word document, but rather shows up a 'Binary file'? The only other time I tried to attach a Word doc the same thing happened, but I put it down to a corrupt file rather than a more general problem.

Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

AWR

[OmegaB]

Are you appending the .doc extension?

[AWR]

Originally Posted by _Ω_ Are you appending the .doc extension?

I'm not sure what you mean.

The file size when I check the file info appears strange though: 40KB for a 6 page document seems small.

[SpecMode]

If it's mostly (or all) text, that seems about right. I've got a 31-page text file that's only 89k.

What Omega is suggesting is that once you've saved the attachment to the receiving machine, edit the filename and add a .doc extension to it if it somehow got omitted (or, alternatively, make sure the attachment's filename ends in .doc before you send it).

[AWR]

Thanks you two.

That what I thought about the .doc extension, but it was attached. Anyway...

I tried something simple that has worked for some reason: opened the document, saved it with a new name on to the desktop (not in my documents folder where the other one is) and presto - it attaches. I have only sent it to myself, but here shouldn't be a problem ...

Thanks for the help. Will report back if it continues to asplode.