Hi all? new to this group - is there a certain way and paste a doc onto a new message? ??? ? seems rather a simple thing to do but? ?I can not seem to do it -? I am an owner of a list? Thanks? for help Linda?

On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 10:44 AM, Linda Gray wrote:

is there a certain way and paste a doc onto a new message? ??? ? seems rather a simple thing to do but? ?I can not seem to do it -? I am an owner of a list? Thanks? for help Linda?

You can attach a doc. By email, do it as you usually do. On the group homepage, use the paperclip icon.?

But first you must make sure that your group is set up to allow attachments.
/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/customizing-group-settings/message-formatting-settings
In Admin, Settings, Message Formatting. Use dropdown menu to change.

And how it appears in your email depends on your own subscription. See?
/helpcenter/membersmanual/1/controlling-your-email-subscription-preferences/advanced-preferences

If this isn't the answer, please give us more detail.

Cheers,

Frances


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Linda?

yes a word doc

I just want to copy a doc from the file section and paste it onto a new topic e mail to send to my group? Thanks? Linda

Perhaps there's something I'm missing here. It would seem that if the file is already in the Files area it would be simpler (and consume less storage space) to simply link to it. If you only want part of the file, one could simply copy that part of the file and paste it as text into your message.

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I just want to copy a doc from the file section and paste it onto a new topic e mail to send to my group Thanks Linda

On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 02:42 PM, Linda Gray wrote:

I just want to copy a doc from the file section and paste it onto a new topic e mail to send to my group? Thanks? Linda

Click on the title of file. What happens next depends on the type of document.
If it is a PDF, in my Mac computer, it will open as a new tab in the browser. I can then select all and paste or save as PDF and attach.
If it is a docx (on my Mac), it goes into downloads. I assume if it is a .pages (a Mac program) on a Windows computer it does the same.
Then open it and copy/paste or save as a PDF and attach.?

Or I can just right-click on the title of the document to get the URL, copy link and paste that into the post.

There are probably other things you can do. You can also click to Update a file. Change the description to see why it is appearing again - at least "please see this file"! Make sure that Notify Members is ticked.?

It occurs to me that perhaps you want to send a file from another group or subgroup to another group. If so, please tell us that.

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On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 02:42 PM, Linda Gray wrote:

I just want to copy a doc from the file section and paste it onto a new topic e mail to send to my group

Linda -- First off, make sure you are using the HTML editor. The HTML editor should have an assortment of formatting icons in the taskbar at the top (for bold, italic, bulleted list, etc).

Secondly, is this something you plan to send on a regular basis? If so, you might have more luck by writing it up as a Member Notice of some kind, instead of a Word document (see?/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/managing-member-notices).?

I also strongly support the previous suggestion that you simply save it to a PDF and send it as an attachment.

All that aside, back to your question...

With simpler documents, I frankly haven't had too much difficulty opening the file in Word and doing cut-and-paste from that into the editor. But the MS-Word format is proprietary; there is no such thing as a "Word format for email." If your document contains constructs that can't be easily rendered in HTML, the online editor (and your own email client, for that matter) are both likely to struggle to handle it.

You might have more luck by first saving the document as HTML directly to your desktop (File->Save As->Web page, filtered). Then open that in a second browser tab and cut-and-paste it into the editor from that.

All told, if you expect the document to look exactly the same in email as it does in Word then I have to say that's very unlikely to happen. If you could provide a copy of the file (or a similar one) it might help us to help you further.

Regards,
Bruce

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