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Subject:Re: e-mailing docs based on templates From:Mc Jdub <wigginje -at- PSSCH -dot- PS -dot- GE -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 8 Jul 1997 10:43:29 -0400
I'm assuming from your description of the problem that you are using
some version of MS Word?
If so, the problem lies in the fact that you are not sending a copy of
the template along with the document.
Once the recipient is in possession of both the document and the
template, s/he can then use the "file/template/attach..." command to
attach the document to this template, thereby preserving the doc's
styles, formatting, etc. (They should make sure the "Automatically
Update Styles" box is checked, btw.)
You also mentioned that this template contains a lot of macros; if these
are macros that your recipient(s) might have need to use, you might want
to double-check to ensure that they have indeed been saved specifically
to this particular template and not to normal.dot.
Hope this helps,
Jeff Wiggin
wigginje -at- pssch -dot- ps -dot- ge -dot- com
> ----------
> From: Vivrett, Connie
> (Hoofddorp)[SMTP:Vivrett -at- HOOFDDORP -dot- UNIWORLD -dot- NL]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 1997 7:20 PM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: e-mailing docs based on templates
>
> We have a template on which we base all our technical documentation.
> Within
> our own organisation, it works well. In this case, everyone has the
> template
> loaded on his or her machine. The problem occurs when a document based
> on
> the template is e-mailed to someone outside of the company. It loses
> all of
> its formatting.
>
> Does anyone know can we stop this from happening? Keep in mind that
> our
> template contains quite a few macros. Also we have tried turning off
> the
> Automatically Update Styles checkbox in File-Templates but it changes
> nothing.
>
> We have already gone through the CAP A thing, so we know it's not a
> virus.
>
> Any quick advice would be helpful.
>
> Connie Vivrett
> Technical Author
> AT&T-Unisource Communications Services
> vivrett -at- hoofddorp -dot- uniworld -dot- nl
>
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