Attachments to e-mails

[paddywak]

I hope somebody can help me .I've a Dell laptop running Vista Home Premium. My problem is that I want to send some friends info by e-mail attachment . I go to documents open the file select the relevent info and load. It comes up in the e-mail as an attachment with the correct file name etc. However when trying to open the attachment a screen comes up Isaying "Unable to access document may already be open or read only." If I print and scan the document the attachment goes through ok, but I dont know what I'm doing wrong so any help appreciated

[VHG]

You sound as though you are opening the file you want as the attachment THEN going into email to set it as the attachment.

It does not work like that.

You dont send them the CONTENTS of the file, you send them the whole file.

1) Make sure the file you want to send is NOT open (so if you are sending a Word document make sure Word is NOT oipen).

2) Go into email, start a new email, then choose the attachment option (usually a paperclip).

3) Navigate to the folder where the file is and select it.

4) The name of the attachment will be added to the email (you dont see the contents, just the name of the file).

5) Write your email, address it, then press send.

[paddywak]

thanks for the info I going to have a play now and see what happens , as you might have guessed I'm a bit of an idiot as to how a computr actually works