CORRUPT DOC FILE

Anybody knows why vista doesnt want to open doc files, saying it`s corrupt?
Eg: I cant open a .doc e-mail attachment in my mailbox. WHY? It would be so
elemental... Thank you very much for the help!

TNX Rich! Its sort of workin now. The thing is that I got MS Works with Vista
in my new laptop. Now that I downloaded Word Viewer, the MS Works opens the
..doc files, too, horever it transforms it immediately into .wks format. So I
just dont save it after closing I guess.

"Richard Urban" wrote:

> You need to have a program on your computer that can see a file with the
> ..doc extension (Microsoft Word - latest version to be certain that you can
> see files sent to you that were created with Word 2007).
>
> You can also install the free Word Viewer from Microsoft, available here:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/891090/
>
> You can also install Open Office which will allow you to view the .doc
> format files, available here:
> http://download.openoffice.org/2.3.0/index.html
>
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>
>
> "Tibor" <> wrote in message
> news:CE4C557F-9D3C-46AF-B771-...
> > Anybody knows why vista doesnt want to open doc files, saying it`s
> > corrupt?
> > Eg: I cant open a .doc e-mail attachment in my mailbox. WHY? It would be
> > so
> > elemental... Thank you very much for the help!
>
>

Hi,

You need to install MS word if you want to save the file in doc format.
If you still got corrupt file, I think you can try a utility called
'Advanced Word Repair' (http://www.datanumen.com/awr/) to repair your
Word document. It works rather well for my corrupt Word documents.


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