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The Medway Handyman wrote:
Someone known to me has sent a Word Doc as an e-mail attachment. In the OE6
'attach' bar it has the Word icon in front of the title and .doc after - but
it won't open properly.

All I get is lines of little squares and .........................'Page
Break'...........................

Any idea how to open it?

Assuming you have word 2003, it could be a word 2007 doc? Although I'm
fairly sure they are .docx files.

Might be worth trying http://tinyurl.com/2007pack

If you don't have Word 2003 then http://tinyurl.com/2007viewer might be handy.

Darren