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Abstract

In a data processing system having an electronic mail system for sending documents from a first user to a recipient user and, for each user, a means for creating and editing documents, the documents having differing formats, a method for converting a document having a first format into a document having a second format preferred by the recipient user, using a table of user document format preferences and a document format conversion facility. The user preference table contains, for each user, an entry specifying the document format preferred by the user, and appended to each document to be sent to a recipient user is a tag which includes a field specifying the user to receive the document, and a field specifying the first format of the document. The document format field of the tag of a received document is compared with the preferred document format field of the user preference table entry of the recipient user, and, in response to a difference between the first format and the preferred format, the document conversion facility is used to convert the document from the first format to the preferred format.

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