This is a case of out-growing your pc. Get another one. You can get good value second hand. Then buy a graphics program, you'll never regret it. They make tasks like you describe so easy. Joy ----- Original Message ----- From: "genlistlass" <genlistlass@hotmail.com> To: <GEN-COMP-TIPS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 12:40 AM Subject: [Gen-Comp-Tips] sending photos by email? > I have just bought an HP 1200 3-in-1 scanner, printer, copier. > > I have been trying to send scans of photos (genealogy ones!) as email > attachments but the wheels fall off when I choose their option to send as an > email (it trims the size right down this way) and it opens a Word email > template with the photo I'd just scanned as an attachment. > > When I hit send, nothing happens, it doesn't go off into cyber space. > > Obviously I have to make OE talk to Word??? Or the other way around? The > "Help" functions are as always, unhelpful! > > I tried Zipping the saved photo file and sending that as a normal OE email > but that didn't work either. The Zipping (WinZip) hardly reduced the size of > the photo file at all and the server got indigestion trying to send the huge > file and gave up half way through. > > genlistlass, UK > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.736 / Virus Database: 490 - Release Date: 09/08/2004 > > > ==== GEN-COMP-TIPS Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this list send a message to GEN-COMP-TIPS-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >