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|    Tilde to Peter Moylan    |
|    Re: (MS Word) ".doc" files are (sometime    |
|    01 Aug 24 22:31:43    |
      XPost: comp.editors, microsoft.public.word.newusers       From: invalide@invalid.invalid              Peter Moylan wrote:       > On 13/06/24 13:36, Steve Hayes wrote:              > I recently had to send a document to my uncle and a cousin, so I       > converted it to PDF first. It turned out that their mail provider (the       > same provider in both cases) rejected mail with a PDF attachment. I'm       > going to have to send it by snail mail.              Came across this looking at some older posts.       Something I've successfully used many times       in the past is to simply change the file       extension (to ".txt" for example) and let the       recipient know to save it with the correct       extension. If the mailer only looks at the       file name this gets through. Have not had to       do this for quite a while, so YMMV.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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