# Sending Documents as E-mail

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Sending Documents as E-mail
Working in $[officename], you can send the current document as an e-mail attachment.
- Choose File - Send - Document as E-mail.
  $[officename] opens your default e-mail program. If you want to send the current document with another e-mail program, you can select the program to use with Internet - E-mail in the Options dialog box.
- In your e-mail program, enter the recipient, subject and any text you want to add, then send the e-mail.
In case you want to send the e-mail to a recipient who only has software that cannot read the OpenDocument format, you can send the current document in an often used proprietary format.
For a text document, choose File - Send - Document as Microsoft Word. For a spreadsheet, choose File - Send - Document as Microsoft Excel. And for a presentation, choose File - Send - Document as Microsoft PowerPoint.
If you want to send the document as a read-only file, choose File - Send - Document as PDF.
These commands do not change your current document. Only a temporary copy is created and sent.