Can't send documents created in pages and exported in windows word format
Created a document in Pages then exported them into a Windows Word format to my desktop then opened Mail and attached the document to Mail. Whenever I hit the send button I get an error message: "syntax argument error." My ISP is yahoo. They researched the problem and stated it has to be a Mail problem. Anyone out there had this problem? How did you rectify it?
Thanks anything will help...
Does sound like a mail problem. You could try right clicking on the file & create archive of ... This will create a zip file. Try sending the zip file.
Do you have another account? Try that.
Try another mail program like thunderbird.
Robert
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