I have given up on the idea of thinking that my Excel questions are simple.

It is possible to email a spreadsheet directly from within Excel. When I tried to do this, it wanted to use MS-Mail as the email client, and it wanted to use the (no longer valid) email address that was in effect when the computer was built.

How do I tell Excel that I want to use GMail and my current email address?

tanstaafl.

I don't think you can.

Excel wants to use an email client that can accept the attachment directly. Which means a native email client.

The gmail client is web based, you have to browse and upload attachments. AFAIK that can only be done interactively.

Gmail can be accessed by Outlook or Outlook express since it has an IMAP and authenticated SMTP setup.

You can't tell Excel to use Gmail - it doesn't work like that. It just starts a new email in your mail client and the mail client takes it from there... The problem is possibly that Excel can only use Microsoft email clients when using the builtin in "send to email" function.

If you want to use this a lot, you could set up Outlook Express to use your Gmail account (at least for sending only).

You see why?

Nah, it's no big deal. If I could do it I would send about two emails a month through Excel. (It is the customs form for receiving packages here in Mexico through my mail forwarder who is located in Texas.) I'll just do as I have been, and save the file and attach it to a regular email.

Thanks for the info...

tanstaafl.

There are a number of ways to set Gmail as your default Windows email application. Attachments are a bigger problem, though.

Try Affixa. There are probably other utilities that will help, too, but that's the first one I found.