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Default Email attachment opens as blank Word document

Surely that depends on your email software?

I don't know whether this applies to the Mac, but (on a PC) you should
never open an email attachment directly in Word; save it to your hard
drive first.

On Jan 23, 10:06*am, Christina
wrote:
I upgraded from Office 04 to Office 08 and now when I double-click on any
.doc or .docx file in an email attachment Word opens to a blank document. *I
can open the file if Word is open and I search through my attachments folder.
*What do I need to do to make it so double-clicking the document in the email
opens it directly?