"Fran" <Fran@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:96AC8C5D-FF98-4EBF-8985-B77DA0C1AC47@microsoft.com...
>I would like to send an email to someone, add an attachment to it (excel)
>and
> make some changes on the attachment before I sent it to them. When I try
> to
> do this I get messages saying the changes have to be saved to the
> harddrive--is there anyway around this? I just updated to Office07 and
> used
> to do it before the change. Also the file I send them needs to be
> something
> that isn't read only as what I'm sending them is a budget template that I
> add
> specific info like their salary to and then they build the rest of their
> budget.
Speaking as someone who is a recently-retired Management and Systems
Accountant for one or two large Public Companies in the UK, why would you do
it this way in the first place? In Excel do a "Save As", and modify that
file. Then send it. Much better for the Audit trail.....