How Best to Email Documents?

["Thomas H. George" <tomgeorge@spininternet.com>]

Open Office File>Send does not automatically attach the document to an 
email message though it opens a Mozilla send window.

In any case recipients have good reason to be suspicious of attachments.

Since Open Office can convert a document to HTML format is there any way 
to insert the text directly into the email rather that send it as an 
attachment?

The problem of attachments is compounded in the case of homework.  My 
grandson writes his papers using Open Office.  The printouts are fine 
but occasionally he must transmit the file to school.  The school uses 
only Mac's but can convert files from the .doc format.  This means Open 
Office must convert from .sxw to .doc for transmission to the school 
where it will be converted to their Mac format.

Is there a better way to do all this?

Tom George