Word & Email text.....

[dodgingandweaving]

G'day guys,

I've been sending attachments as PDF, but since got an email saying................

'Can you please send all pieces as Word and email text'

How do I do this??? Is this something I can do on Microsoft word or...... I don't want to ask what they mean and look stupid!!!

[Wedgie]

I would interpret that as wanting you to send the info either by an attached (Microsoft) Word document or having all of the content in the actual email itself as opposed to having it all on a pdf attachment.
Must say I agree with them too, PDF shits me.

[Dissident]

I love PDFs

For the right reasons, of course

[Zorro]

I would interpret that as wanting you to send the info either by an attached (Microsoft) Word document or having all of the content in the actual email itself as opposed to having it all on a pdf attachment.
Must say I agree with them too, PDF shits me.

Yep that's my interpretation as well. Generally happens if someone wants to edit something and can't if received in pdf format.

[Psyber]

I would interpret that as wanting you to send the info either by an attached (Microsoft) Word document or having all of the content in the actual email itself as opposed to having it all on a pdf attachment.
Must say I agree with them too, PDF shits me.

Yep that's my interpretation as well. Generally happens if someone wants to edit something and can't if received in pdf format.

I thought everyone had the Adobe Reader or one of the other free readers like Foxit.
Sometimes of course you don't want they person at the other end to be able to alter what you have sent and thus misquote you.
They can copy it and convert the copy - there are many free PDF to Text convertors out there:
http://au.search.yahoo.com/search?fr=yf ... t&ei=UTF-8

[Wedgie]

Psyber's on the money as usual, its not a matter of being to edit it, its just a pain in the arse to view or pass on at times. PDFs have cost me quite a bit of time over the last few years and word attachments or including the data in emails has made life lot easier for me. Luckily I'm encountering PDF attachmentss less and less these days although some more amateur organisations use them.
Diss is right too, used when and how they should be they can be very useful, unfortnately this is the case in a very minimal of cases I've encountered.

[Dissident]

I must admit I haven't had many instances of people not being able to open them, nearly all PCs have Adobe Reader installed.

As a rule I generally send out documents as Word format if I want the person to edit it or be able to edit it. Many places are like this, as having the Word document means other things can be accessed, and I've seen a vew forgeries happen.

[Psyber]

I am now downloading my ANZ bank statements in .pdf format.
The deal is they email you as each new statement goes on line, and you can then log in the Internet banking to read them.
They are available on line for the 7 years the ATO requires you to keep them and you don't have to store paper copies.
I'm saving them on my PC in .pdf format to email to my accountants, who are in Melbourne, as required.

There has been recent discussion on a medical forum by general practitioners about favouring ECG machines that export the output in .pdf format to a computer.
The advantages include the fact that they are not easily edited, they don't take up much HDD space**, and they can be imported into most clinical software.
The there is the fact that they can be looked up later to compare with a current ECG and read with Adobe or another .pdf reader.
Other ECGs that are exported in proprietary formats may become inaccessible if the company disappears and there are no upgrades of their software for whatever OS is current.
By law these records have to be kept accessible for 7 years after the patient is last seen - if they were a child 7 years after they turn 21.

** if you have 10 GPs seeing say 30 patients a day each on a computerised system, having to record everything including scanning letters and any pathology results that don't come electronically, the database grows fast..

[dodgingandweaving]

Thanks gents!!