Sometimes you may not want to send a document as an attachment. If it is a word processing document, you can send it as a regular e-mail message, if you do not mind it being sent without any special formatting.

To do this, write the message as you normally would, including the subject and the recipient's e-mail address. When you are ready to include your document, open your word processing program, then open the document you want to send. Select the text you wish to send in your e-mail - either part or all. To select all the text, press Control-A (Apple-A with Macintosh). Press Control-C (Apple-C with Macintosh) to copy the text. Then go back to your e-mail message, and click at the bottom of the body of the message, after what you have already typed. Press Control-V (Apple-V with Macintosh) to paste the text into the e-mail message.

With this method, you avoid having to send an attachment. The information you want to send is part of the e-mail message itself. The downside to this is that the document will lose any images, tables, graphs, or special formatting it had.

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