No More Scrambled E-Mail

E-mail doesn't work very well with attached documents in proprietary formats. In plain English: if you send your Word document as an attachment, you often get a note back from the person you sent it to saying "your document was scrambled."

There are e-mail services and programs that are supposed to solve this problem, but it still crops up for many of us with frustrating regularity.

One solution is to save your document in "text" before you send it. E-mail has no problem transmitting text. Any word processor can read text. It doesn't matter if the person who reads your document is using Word, WordPerfect, the text editor you sister designed, has a PC, or a Mac. Save your document as "plain text," "DOS text," or "acii"...all work.

"But my document looks so PLAIN in plain text!" you say. There is a solution. Save your fancy Word document in "Rich Text." Your headlines, bold type, and eye-catching formatting will appear almost the same as your original. Yet it is in text which transmits fine over the Internet.

Kevin Nunley provides marketing and copy writing. Read all his free tips at http://DrNunley.com Reach Kevin at kevin@drnunley.com or 603-249-9519.

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