Automation Adventures

It has happened to everyone: you are composing this message, and say something like “as you can see in the attached Excel sheet” or talk about the cute picture you’ve attached, and then you forget to attach the file…

Have no fear, Outlook Attachment Reminder is here! A small but effective script will scan your message for the word “attach”, and check to see if you indeed have attached any files. If not, it will alert you, and ask you if you want to send it anyway.

If you have a signature that uses files, the script even has a provision for that!

Thanks to LifeHacker.

Tags: attach, attachment, outlook, reminder, script

The Technix Update blog has a handy little tip on how to change the default save format from the dreaded DOCX to the Word 2003 standard of DOC.

In case the blog gets swamped or the tip disappears, here are the steps in a nutshell:

1. Open Microsoft Word, and click the Office icon at the top left.
2. Click the Word options.
3. Select Save in the left pane, then select Word 97-2003 documents from the drop down list.
4. Click OK.

If you have a DOCX document that you want to convert to a DOC, try one of these web services for free:

• Zamzar
• DOCX2DOC
• Zoho Writer

or you can download the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats.

Tags: 2003, 2007, conversion, doc, docx, word

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