Rick Brandt wrote:[color=blue]
> Katie wrote:[color=green]
>> So I am Microsoft Access User, learning as I go. I need to send a
>> database back to its author for some adjustments. For security and
>> due to the size of this database I need to send it as a winzip file.
>> I have attempted to send it via File, then send to email recipient
>> but it offers the following formats only: HTML, EXCEL, TEXT FILES,
>> RICH TEXT. So I took another route, and created a new zip file from
>> my desktop and attempted to copy the database into the file. This
>> copies as an HTML File and will not email. Can anyone offer any
>> suggestions or help? Thanks[/color]
>
> You cannot save an MDB file as something else from within that file
> as you can a Word document. Those choices you saw were for exporting
> the current *object* in the db window, not for the entire MDB file.
>
> To do what you want close Access entirely and do this from the file
> system (Windows explorer).[/color]
Yep.
Go to Windows Explorer and find your MDB file. Right-click on it and
select Winzip/Zip and Email (or some variation of that).
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regards,
Bradley
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