John Rumm wrote:
Bob Minchin dangling via a dongle wrote:
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?


Maybe it is the new(ish) version of word (2007?)

That would be a .docx usually though...

I think there is some sort of free ad in you can get to allow word
2003 to open the new file format.

Indeed, download from MS.

I just feel that would bugger up Word completely & I wouldn't be able to use
it. Don't link these new fangled downloads.

Don't try and open through OE - save to disc and right click 'open
with' to control what happens.

Or use the word Open, but then select "Recover text from any file" for
the document type. That will usually elt you see anything readable in
there.

I don't have those options. Do you mean 'open with'?


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Dave - The Medway Handyman
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