Thanks Graham, point taken. But, if there's something malicious in the
document that's not necessarily of the virual variety by putting it on your
hard drive doesn't that pose an even more dangerous problem? How then
would you know there was something wrong with it, maybe not until your anti
virus programme did it's scheduled scan, by which time you would have
probably opened the document anyway.
B.W.
"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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It is just bad practice that one day will bite you. Not all the
potentially malicious code that can be attached to a document is a virus,
and in any case the virus software manufacturers are always playing
catch-up. But the most compelling reason is that if you save changes to a
document you will lose those changes.
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
B.W. wrote:
Never open documents directly from e-mails. Save them to the hard
drive
first!
Really, why is that? Assuming you have antivirus spyware installed
and updated correctly!
Thanks for all your help
B.W.
"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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Never open documents directly from e-mails. Save them to the hard
drive first!
Answer 'no' to the normal.dot prompt if you don't know what the
changes are.
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
B.W. wrote:
Recently sometimes when I open a word doc directly from OE6 just
read it and don't scroll or do anything to it, not always but
sometimes I'm asked do I want to Save, why is this happening with just
some?
Also when opening some of these files directly from OE when I go to
close them they say normal or global dot has been changed do I want
to save the change and I say no. Does this mean that the file I
have looked at is trying to change my normal.dot?
Is anyone else having these problems, these have only cropped up in
the last week?
TIA
B.W.
"B.W." (del xxx) wrote in message
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Thanks Graham, yes regional settings Australia and English
Australian. Also the proofing parameter in Language etc are as you
set out. (This is what I did originally, but I did go back and
re-check.) Bit confused as when I click on Australian English it
is selected (Blue) but a tick appears below against English US? So I
have left the check against English Australia.
B.W.
"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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Check the language set in Windows regional settings.
Check the language proofing parameter in the normal paragraph
style. From tools language set language - uncheck
'automatically detect' --
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
B.W. wrote:
O.K. after curing this for a couple of days, it's back again,
what is causing it?
Any advice please.
B.W.
"B.W." (del xxx) wrote in message
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Thanks for that, yes that's how I cured it. I just wondered why
it happened in the first place though?
B.W.
wrote in message
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I got around this by selecting all in a document (CTRL-A) then
choosing my local language under the language option, and
positively selecting it (ie highlighting, and not just relying
on the underline. "B.W." (del xxx)
wrote in message
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For a little while I have been editing docs I have been
receiving messages saying I have 2 specific MSSpell dlls
missing. After some searching I have discovered this has
apparently something to do with proofing tools in the wrong
language. I have not changed anything on my system to cause
this to happen. Does anyone know the reason for this, I would
like to know in case this problem re-occurs. Luckily I have
found the solution and have fixed it so far.
It couldn't be an update or an outside doc which somehow it
setting this change on my system could it?
TIA
B.W.