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Subject:Re: e-mailing docs based on templates From:BPezzini -at- AOL -dot- COM Date:Fri, 11 Jul 1997 10:35:01 -0400
>>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.
>>
To e-mail Word files with your special template parameters, rename the file
extension from .DOC to .DOT, which makes your source file look like a
template file. Weird, but it works.
Bob Pezzini, Technical Documentation
AOL, Vienna VA
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