[BK]

Yeah, been there done that before!! grin




"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
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Well, one trap that it will help you avoid is going ahead and editing a
document and then saving it thinking that you have saved the changes only
to later discover that you were working on a document that was opened from
a temporary location and when you close it, the "changed" file is deleted.

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"BK" wrote in message
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I can certainly do a "save" before opening if that's safer. Just don't
understand why saving it first makes it safer to open.


"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
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It is not really a good idea to directly open documents as attachments
to email messages. Better to first save the attachment and then open
it.

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"BK" wrote in message
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But I have opened other .doc email attachments that do not launch Word
2003.




"Daddy" wrote in message
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My guess: Because the file extension was .doc and the default file
format in Word 2007 is .docx

Daddy

"BK" wrote in message
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Using Windows XP and Office 2007

I just received a Word 2003 document as an email attachment. When I
opened the attachment, it launched Word 2003 on my system. Although
Office 2003 still resides on my system, I am using Office 2007. I
have received 2003 Word documents as email attachments before, and
when I open the attachment it always launches Word 2007.

Any idea what would cause an email attachment to launch Word 2003
this time???