How To Send A Document Via Email In Word 2016

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HomeTechnology ArticlesSoftware ArticlesMicrosoft Products ArticlesWord ArticlesHow to Send a Document via Email in Word 2016ByDan Gookin Updated2016-03-26 07:23:12From the bookWord 2016 For DummiesShare

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Emailing your Word 2016 document is a snap — as long as you're using Microsoft Outlook as your email program. If not, you need to save your document as you normally would, and then use your email program (which isn't Outlook) to create a new message with the document chosen as a file attachment.

If you do use Outlook as your email program, and it's all set up and actually works, follow these steps in Word to send a document via email:

1. Save your document one more time.

2. Click the File tab.

3. Choose the Share command.

4. Choose the E-Mail item found under the Share heading.

5. Click the Send As Attachment button.

   At this point, Outlook takes over, and you compose your email message. When you send the message, your Word document is sent along as well.

Documents saved to your OneDrive cloud storage can be shared with others on the Internet.

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Dan Gookin has been writing about technology for 20 years. He has contributed articles to numerous high-tech magazines and written more than 90 books about personal computing technology, many of them accurate. He combines his love of writing with his interest in technology to create books that are informative and entertaining, but not boring. Having sold more than 14 million titles translated into more than 30 languages, Dan can attest that his method of crafting computer tomes does seem to work. Perhaps Dan’s most famous title is the original DOS For Dummies, published in 1991. It became the world’s fastest-selling computer book, at one time moving more copies per week than the New York Times number-one best seller (although, because it’s a reference book, it could not be listed on the NYT best seller list). That book spawned the entire line of For Dummies books, which remains a publishing phenomenon to this day. Dan’s most recent titles include PCs For Dummies, 9th Edition; Buying a Computer For Dummies, 2005 Edition; Troubleshooting Your PC For Dummies; Dan Gookin’s Naked Windows XP; and Dan Gookin’s Naked Office. He publishes a free weekly computer newsletter, “Weekly Wambooli Salad,” and also maintains the vast and helpful Web site www.wambooli.com.

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