Email horrors

How often have you asked someone to send you a picture for a document or web site? And how often has the picture or graphic been inserted into a text document?

More often than not, probably. Quite why the graphic file can’t be sent as an attachment on its tod for your easy access and editing is a bit of a mystery.

Here, then, is a handy way out of this delicate situation where your overtures for a resend of the original graphic file might be construed as next best to declaring the sender is a numpty.

Simply open the text document in Word or OpenOffice and go File and Save as Web Page. When you do this the text document is converted to.htm and any images on the page are extracted and the files placed in a separate folder.

And it gets better. Usually you end up with two versions of the graphic file; one a high resolution file and the other a low-res web-ready image.

Without a doubt this is far quicker than email ping-pong or a protracted ‘tech support’ call to the sender.

Closely related to this phenomenon, but much more difficult to remedy remotely, is the email attachment that turns out to be a shortcut to the sender’s C drive.