Problems with Word Online and "Standard" Word

[WWGD]

Hi All,
I often send files to myself as a way of saving documents (wyhen I forget my flash drive, or
have trouble using it.) . Still, it seems like microsoft often saves or translates by default, the files
I attach into their respective office online equivalents, e.g., word documents are saved into word online documents, etc. But then the "standard" machine versions cannot open the online versions. Am I
missing something obvious here, or is this your standard microsoft incompetence?
Thanks.

 

[fresh_42]

Why don't you attach them as 'title.doc.xyz' so their format stays unchanged and when opening the mail just strip off the fantasy extension.

 

[WWGD]

Why don't you attach them as 'title.doc.xyz' so their format stays unchanged and when opening the mail just strip off the fantasy extension.

The strange thing is that I had not even saved the content as a word document. I had sent myself an email with something I had written and somehow windows decided to save the contents of the email as a word file, as an online version of word file.

 

[fresh_42]

This is why I hate those latest Windows versions (≥ 8). They think they have to think for you all the time. It's simply annoying.

 

[DrZoidberg]

You could try a different email software.
Or you use another way of saving the file. e.g. dropbox or google drive.

 

[WWGD]

You could try a different email software.
Or you use another way of saving the file. e.g. dropbox or google drive.

Problem is I have a lot of people who know me by my Outlook address. Otherwise, I would change in a second.
But, yes, I will save somewhere else next time.

 

[Borg]

The other alternative is to zip the files that you're emailing. I haven't heard of Outlook opening them and modifying files inside - yet. Interestingly, one of my co-workers was having a problem with Outlook on his desktop not recognizing a current version of a file and sending a previous version instead. Really odd behavior. I would have liked to debug it further but he gave up after we ran a few email tests.

 

[DrZoidberg]

Problem is I have a lot of people who know me by my Outlook address. Otherwise, I would change in a second.

But you can use any email app you want to access your outlook email. As explained here
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/outlook/send-receive-from-app
So you don't have to change your address, just the app you use.