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I have a problem when I am trying to send the Excel sheet or document I am working on as an email attachement.

The message I am getting is:

General Mail Failure. Quit Microsoft Excel, restart the mail system and try again.

I have checked, all possible solutions, but no luck. Any suggestions on how to solve this problem?

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What "all possible solutions" have you checked? If you don't list what you've already tried, you're going to get suggestions to try something that has already failed. – Velociraptors May 10 '10 at 14:21
Can you send any other attachment/s? Is it just the one you're working on? Can you send your attachment to another address? – Mike May 10 '10 at 14:28
What is the size of the attachment? Possibly you have exceeded some limit. Save it as a file and check it's size. – Marnix A. van Ammers May 10 '10 at 14:59
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Do you actually have something like Outlook or Outlook Express set up? (I can imagine it won't work with web-based email like Gmail.) – Arjan May 10 '10 at 17:27
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It has been my experience that mailing from within Excel or Word rarely if every works. Go to you mail program start the email and attach it from there. Unless the file is gigantic, that always works.

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