Why do people put images in word documents to send them via email?

I don't mind paint, or powerpoint or even excel, but word for images annoys me too!
 
Gilly said:
They don't. My email works fine without an internet connection.
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Whilst your email account would work fine, to download the messages you will need an internet connection, take your phone turn off Data, WiFi etc. and then send an email to the account you have on the phone, look at the phone is the email there?

That's a very Gilly thing for you to say, you are in the know...


you wasn't being sarcastic was you?
 
Skyfall said:
I mean, come on!
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Because that's the way the older generation do it, and exactly how they teach the younger generation to continue on.

Not only that, they don't even bother compressing the picture when they've resized it so it fits on the page the way they want!!!

RAWR!

:D
 
Typical public sector office workers, usually in their 50s.

- like the OP wrote, pictures sent embedded in Word
- the content of a .DOC pasted into an email rather than attached as .DOC
- so-called "web designers" using MS Frontpage :rolleyes:
- having to phone up IT every 2 months for a password reset, having forgotten it
- sharing an Outlook calendar yet entering sensitive reminders (job interviews, resignation etc)
- Excel spreadsheets with inconsistent font colours and broken borders
- referring to computer as 'hard drive', wallpaper as 'screen saver' etc
- harassing switchboard for a dept's extension number, when said number is already written on their white board next to them
- having ear-splitting loud ringtones on their mobile lol :p
 
They don't realize that they can paste in to email message or mspaint.

The worst is when you get a call about an email send being rejected. on investigation its size issue. trying to email a 50mbyte word doc. open word doc, find scanned pages of a document as an image on each page of document. o.O How is that even possible ?
 
Hyburnate said:
Whilst your email account would work fine, to download the messages you will need an internet connection, take your phone turn off Data, WiFi etc. and then send an email to the account you have on the phone, look at the phone is the email there?

That's a very Gilly thing for you to say, you are in the know...


you wasn't being sarcastic was you?
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Well technically you can send and receive mail to/from people in your company without an internet connection, assuming you have a mail server on the network.
You'd be hard pressed to receive a mail from someone external without it though!
 
For those asking why I'm using paint and not dumping straight into a mail, some people still use plain text for creation and besides this topic was about attachments. :)

Edit - oh and no Windows 7 snipping tool, we're still on XP. Boo.
 
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randal said:
For those asking why I'm using paint and not dumping straight into a mail, some people still use plain text for creation and besides this topic was about attachments. :)

Edit - oh and no Windows 7 snipping tool, we're still on XP. Boo.
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Indeed.
Isn't it best practice to add anything other than basic text as an attachment purely for this reason, and cross platform use?

Worst example we get with this is a client pastes excel documents into the body of an email.
Hard copies are needed of these spreadsheets but it is nigh on impossible to print out as it stands as the email does not fit on A4 correctly and Outlook seems to have no functionality to resize/fit to page.
Only solution is to copy and paste back into Excel and print that way.
 
Same here Randal. We have text emails with a few formatting options. Images have to be either via web links or as attachments. Or of course as MS Word attachments lol :p Likewise we're still on XP too and Internet Exploder 7 lol :p

What will happen to us corporate XP users when MS pulls the plug on it early next year? Don't think my workstation could handle it as it's a P4 2.8 HT... so it's a 2003 middle-of-the-road spec machine.
 
Phew, good to know we're not on our own!

To be fair a lot of the company use HTML in Outlook 2010 but its not a standard. Hell, we don't really have company standards. Amazes me sometimes given the size of the organisation.

The daft thing is we've all just been given new machines, but they removed W7 and stuck the XP image back on them. The result is pretty dire, unstable machines that run at a fraction of their capacity. There is a W7 roll out soon, but we're so dependant on legacy apps its going to be a painful migration.

It's all out of my hands these days, I'm just a user but if I were responsible things would be very different!
 
We often receive error prompts from users and they have taken a picture using a camera or phone. Always quite funny!
 
I get this every day. I ask a client to email me their logo for their advert. Surprise surprise, theyve attached a word doc with the miniscule image pasted in. I'm also on xp so no snipping tool (until new pcs next week!).

I make a point to explain that capitalisation in email addresses doesn't matter, but it's too much hassle to explain this as well.
 
I asked for a high quality image of our companies logo once, to use in a customer report.
I received a blurry jpeg in response.
I died a little inside.
 
I have often wondered why word is incapable of saving a doc with a jpeg within it as a fileformat appropriate for a doc with a jpg within it. Why does a 50kb picture become 10mb, instead of 50kb within a 24 kb word doc.
Ho hum, i hate it when they do this at work also.
 
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