Mac Mail attachments as zip

Hi,
When mailing 5 folders containing 4-6 word documents each to a receiver with a PC it turned out that the attachments were received as Zip's. If for some reason one would like to send the attachments unzipped, how would one go about it?
thanks,
pyry

I believe this happens automatically when you attach an entire folder, since there's no way to directly attach a folder to an email message.. If you want just the files attached, add each one individually rather than the whole folder. (Note that you can select and attach multiple files at one time, so you don't actually have to go through the attach process once for each file.)

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