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by klh456

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I am sending a Word document to a user on AOL. Something is zipping the file before it gets to him. I am using Outlook 2000 with SP2 and all patches applied. It only seems to be happening with this one address, but I don't send a lot of files to other people.

Any ideas?

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by klh456

How do I turn off automatic compression in Quick View Plus? Why would auto compression in Quick View zip a file in Outlook?

by kees.valkenswaard

What is against to ?ZIP? your files? It is very efficient to send files to other people. If the other one does not have WINZIP or a similar program that person should get it as soon as possible. Excel, dBase an Access files will reduce enormously.
Several years ago I had to ZIP a lot of files manually each day in order to attach these to e-mails. For lay-people we did one extra move, i.e. converting the ZIP file to an .exe file. Sometimes we even added their unzip directory to the .exe file. The only thing they had to do was double clicking and everything went to the required directory.
Good luck.

by klh456

The problem is the receiver has a ban on his email system which does not allow him to receive ZIPPED files. These are small Word documents and there is no reason to ZIP them. My question is, what is zipping the files, when I do not ZIP them before sending.

by klh456

Don't see it listed as a program, or in Control Panel. Is it a Windows program on an Office Program?

by dklippert

This very well could be a problem with AOL itself. If your files do not zip when sent to others, then your AOL recipient should check there settings.

by klh456

I thought this might be the case, but since it is a professor I wanted to exhaust everything on my end first. I did send the same document to someone else and they did not receive a ZIPPED copy.

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