CORRECTION --- The attachments are named:
themedata.thmx
colorschememapping.xml
Thanks,
Janine
"Janine Hergesell" wrote:
[Quoted Text] > I regularly send out email blasts through an e-mail merge in Word 2007 (using
> an Excel sheet as data source).
>
> Word 2007 is attaching two attachments to my email message (which is
> confusing the recipients and getting the message blocked/caught in spam
> filters):
>
> themeManager.xml
> colorschememapping.xml
>
> (If you open them, one is a bunch of code and the other is a blank
> Powerpoint slide.)
>
> In Outlook (at least in 2007, I don't know about other versions), recipient
> sees a mysterious paperclip icon....but no attachments, and nothing happens
> when you click on the paperclip.
>
> I've seen people write on message boards on the Web that these files are
> created by Word 2007 "for round-trip purposes (i.e. when a file is going to
> be converted from one format to another and then back again into the original
> format.)"
>
> But no one knows how to remove them or prevent them from being attached to
> the messages we send.
>
> Even more mysterious is that the problem only happens sometimes, and I'm
> trying to determine why. I've tried:
>
> --first creating the document in Notepad
> --saving the document as a Word 2003 doc
> --using the default "Normal" style
> --changing the style to "No spacing"
> -- under "Styles" clicking on "clear all formatting"
> --not including bullets or numbered lists or merged data fields
> --under "Word Options" unchecking the "embed linguistics/embed smart tags"
> (I don't know what these are, but I'm trying everything...)
> --sending through two different Outlook accounts
>
> Any help is appreciated!
> --Janine Hergesell
> jhergesell[ at ]pletter.com
>
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