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robin hill - 15 Feb 2007 05:21 GMT

Whenever I send a pps to anyone by email they get multiple emails containing
the same attachment. How do I stop this and be able to only send ONE copy?
Thanks

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Echo S - 15 Feb 2007 15:33 GMT

How are you sending the file -- what steps are you going through? Also, what
email application are you using?

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> Whenever I send a pps to anyone by email they get multiple emails
> containing
> the same attachment. How do I stop this and be able to only send ONE
> copy?
> Thanks

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robin hill - 15 Feb 2007 16:40 GMT

I save it as a pps, click file, send to, mail recipient as attachment. Email
is outlook express.
Thanks

> How are you sending the file -- what steps are you going through? Also, what
> email application are you using?
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> > copy?
> > Thanks

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Echo S - 15 Feb 2007 16:55 GMT

Thanks. Try saving as PPS, opening Outlook Express, Create Mail, and then
click the paper clip icon to attach the file.

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>I save it as a pps, click file, send to, mail recipient as attachment.
>Email
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>> > copy?
>> > Thanks

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robin hill - 15 Feb 2007 17:34 GMT

Thanks, that worked. But WHY would they then have the send to recipient
option in program if it does not work properly? Even their 'help' tells you
to send it by clickiing file, send to, recipient as attachment? Makes you
want to go screaming down the hallway :)

> Thanks. Try saving as PPS, opening Outlook Express, Create Mail, and then
> click the paper clip icon to attach the file.
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> >> > copy?
> >> > Thanks

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Echo S - 15 Feb 2007 22:12 GMT

Yeah, I hear you. There's a lot of stuff about PPT that makes me go
screaming down the hallway!

For what it's worth, it's not a common problem for PPT to send multiple
files when you use Send that way. But I've no idea what the problem is, so I
think sending from within OE instead is the best workaround at this point.

Hopefully someone else will pop in with a real solution!

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> Thanks, that worked. But WHY would they then have the send to recipient
> option in program if it does not work properly? Even their 'help' tells
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>> >> > copy?
>> >> > Thanks

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Steve Rindsberg - 16 Feb 2007 03:20 GMT

> Thanks, that worked. But WHY would they then have the send to recipient
> option in program if it does not work properly? Even their 'help' tells you
> to send it by clickiing file, send to, recipient as attachment? Makes you
> want to go screaming down the hallway :)

Your problem, Robin, is that MS knows where you want to go today but YOU have
chosen not to want to go there. ;-)

I think this feature wants to work with Outlook. Period.

If it'd be really useful to have this feature work as described, I suspect you
could set up a mail profile in Outlook (you'd want to teach it how to send mail
but one way or another prevent it from picking up your waiting mail, either by
telling it never to check for mail or by feeding it a bogus POP3 server name).

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