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Brian68
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cannot open .doc attachments
      #384946 - Sun Feb 17 2008 04:49 PM



HI
Whenever I try to open a .doc in an email attachment in either Hotmail or Windows Mail I get.

-File does not have a program associated with it for performing this action create an association in the set associations control panel.-

When I go to Vista control panel associate a file type .doc is already associated with Word.

Advise please

Brian Stanbridge


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Re: cannot open .doc attachments [Re: Brian68]
      #384953 - Sun Feb 17 2008 05:30 PM

The problem may be that as you are using Vista as os, you will have on board Word 2007 which saves it's .doc files as .docx, and may not recognise a .doc file for what it is.

You need a .doc to .docx converter such as the Microsoft OMPN (office migration planning manager) which you can download free from http://microsoft.com/office/ork


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