Pat, OpenOffice wants a mail client, not an e-mail service. What you're describing is a web-based mail service.
You might have several web-based mail services. Just for purposes of demonstration, let's say you have a gmail account, a yahoo account, and your Xfinity account. It is possible for you to check all three accounts with a single mouse-click if you do the following: Open Outlook or Outlook Express. If you don't have either of those, download Thunderbird and open it. Somewhere in the preferences for those programs--called "mail clients"--there will be a tab labeled "Accounts." Set up each of your accounts in your selected mail client. Let's say they're pa...@yahoo.com; pat...@gmail.com; and pa...@xfinity.com. Once you have your accounts set up in your mail client, you can tell OpenOffice to use that mail client to send e-mail. Just set the association with, say, Outlook. Outlook should be set to send messages from one of these accounts by default; you'd likely choose pa...@xfinity.com as the default account. Having done that, the next time you choose to e-mail a document you'll be given the choice of sending the native document (e.g., MyPaper.doc) or a PDF (e.g., MyPaper.PDF). In the latter case, the document will be converted to PDF and attached to a blank e-mail message. You can fill in the addressee and subject line, and add a message in the body. Then click the "send" button as you normally would. Regards, Jim Plante On Jan 13, 2013, at 10:35 AM, Pat Flynn <shirl...@comcast.net> wrote: > I recently upgraded to Windows 8 Pro from Vista Home Premium. Every time I > try to send a document from Open Office by e-mail, a drop down tells me that > I have to establish an association with my mail program. I have tried Xfinity > , which is my mail service at mail.comcast.net, Open Office on line help and > Windows and have gotten no answer as how to do this. When I check my File > Explorer and Programs, I find no program named Xfinity or Comcast mail. > > > Can you please help me out on this? > > > Pat Flynn > shirlpat @comcast.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
