why can't I share a word document in Apple Mail program

Chrystie

From Microsoft community here is a suggestion

reset the settings of word 2016 to default settings on MacBook - Microsoft Community

"To reset Word 2016 for Mac to the default settings, you can follow these steps:

1. Quit all Office applications.
2. Open Finder and go to ~/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/User Content/Templates, move Normal.dotm to Desktop.
3. Go to ~/Library/Preferences, locate the files com.microsoft.Word.plist and com.microsoft.Office.plist, move them to the Desktop (Word will rebuild them).
4. Restart Word."

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Chrystie,

If you have never done that before, using that ~ command in the finder

Go to the Finder (after you have quit Office) and look for Go in top menu bar

You should see these options

Select Go to Folder

Then Paste into the new window the correct path of the file you are removing

~/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/User Content/Templates

See this pic

Press Go

It opens up a folder called Templates

Drag out the one called Normal.dotm to the desk top

Repeat for this file

~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Word.plist

Hit Go and it should take you to that file within the Preferences folder.

Drag the file to the desktop. Don't trash it yet.

Repeat the same using the following file name in the Go Folder dialog box

~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Office.plist

Hit Go and it should take you to that file within the Preferences folder.

Drag that file to the desktop.

Don't trash it yet.

So you have now removed three files.

Restart your Word and see if the Send Mail is working now.

If it is, you can trash the three files on your desktop.

See if resetting your default email client as shown here works.

Change the default browser or email client on your Mac - Apple Support

Then restart your Mac,

open your Word document

go to File Menu,

go to Share Option

and see if you are able to use Send Document using Mail out of following options

Invite People

Copy Link

Send Document

Send PDF

Send HTML

Ok, it is convenient to shard the way you are used to, but the usual ways still work.

Like for example:

1) Drag the “proxy icon” from the window title bar onto the Mail icon in the Dock

2) Command-click the window title and open the enclosing folder in the Finder - with the file already selected - and then either

2a) drag it to the Mail icon as before or

2b) share to Mail (this is now sharing from the Finder, not Word)

Or open a new message and drag the file

I am sure one can come up with some other options for sharing.

Not sure how to reverse the access denial but a workaround might be to zip the document and add the zipped/compressed file.

Microsoft Community

What version of Office (Word) are you using, chrystie?