Corrupted word attachments

When I open word attachments they are all gobbly gook. How do I get them to
revert to English?

Rugbylangtonian wrote:
> When I open word attachments they are all gobbly gook. How do I get them to
> revert to English?

Presumably you DO have Word (or a compatible application such as Open
Office) installed on your machine?
What happens if you save the attachment to your HDD first?

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Gordon wrote:
> Rugbylangtonian wrote:
>> When I open word attachments they are all gobbly gook. How do I get
>> them to revert to English?
>
> Presumably you DO have Word (or a compatible application such as Open
> Office) installed on your machine?
> What happens if you save the attachment to your HDD first?
>

And secondly what is the extension of these attachments? Is it .docx and
you have Word 2003 or earlier?

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"Gordon" wrote:

> Gordon wrote:
> > Rugbylangtonian wrote:
> >> When I open word attachments they are all gobbly gook. How do I get
> >> them to revert to English?
> >
> > Presumably you DO have Word (or a compatible application such as Open
> > Office) installed on your machine?
> > What happens if you save the attachment to your HDD first?
> >
>
> And secondly what is the extension of these attachments? Is it .docx and
> you have Word 2003 or earlier?
>
I have Microsoft Office Word 2007 installed and it works OK.
I saved the received document in "Documents" and when opened it was the same
gobbly gook.
Sorry, I cannot ascertain if it is .docx.

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Rugbylangtonian <> wrote:

>
>
>"Gordon" wrote:
>
>> Gordon wrote:
>> > Rugbylangtonian wrote:
>> >> When I open word attachments they are all gobbly gook. How do I get
>> >> them to revert to English?
>> >
>> > Presumably you DO have Word (or a compatible application such as Open
>> > Office) installed on your machine?
>> > What happens if you save the attachment to your HDD first?
>> >
>>
>> And secondly what is the extension of these attachments? Is it .docx and
>> you have Word 2003 or earlier?
>>
>I have Microsoft Office Word 2007 installed and it works OK.
>I saved the received document in "Documents" and when opened it was the same
>gobbly gook.
>Sorry, I cannot ascertain if it is .docx.

If it is a .docx file, Word 2007 will handle it effortlessly.

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"Manny Weisbord" wrote:

> Rugbylangtonian <> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >"Gordon" wrote:
> >
> >> Gordon wrote:
> >> > Rugbylangtonian wrote:
> >> >> When I open word attachments they are all gobbly gook. How do I get
> >> >> them to revert to English?
> >> >
> >> > Presumably you DO have Word (or a compatible application such as Open
> >> > Office) installed on your machine?
> >> > What happens if you save the attachment to your HDD first?
> >> >
> >>
> >> And secondly what is the extension of these attachments? Is it .docx and
> >> you have Word 2003 or earlier?
> >>
> >I have Microsoft Office Word 2007 installed and it works OK.
> >I saved the received document in "Documents" and when opened it was the same
> >gobbly gook.
> >Sorry, I cannot ascertain if it is .docx.
>
> If it is a .docx file, Word 2007 will handle it effortlessly.

SORRY BUT the problem still exists!!! Any other ideas???

On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:37:01 -0700, Rugbylangtonian
<> wrote:

>SORRY BUT the problem still exists!!! Any other ideas???

Step 1: Forward it to another computer and determine if the document
is corrupt or your computer has a problem.

"Rugbylangtonian" <> wrote in
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>
> SORRY BUT the problem still exists!!! Any other ideas???

Try disabling your AV mail scanning.

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"+Bob+" wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:37:01 -0700, Rugbylangtonian
> <> wrote:
>
> >SORRY BUT the problem still exists!!! Any other ideas???
>
> Step 1: Forward it to another computer and determine if the document
> is corrupt or your computer has a problem.


Thanks but ALL word documents coming in are corrupted so I think it is VISTA
to blame. XP was not broke so why VISTA?????

"Rugbylangtonian" <> wrote in
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>
>
> "+Bob+" wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:37:01 -0700, Rugbylangtonian
>> <> wrote:
>>
>> >SORRY BUT the problem still exists!!! Any other ideas???
>>
>> Step 1: Forward it to another computer and determine if the document
>> is corrupt or your computer has a problem.
>
>
> Thanks but ALL word documents coming in are corrupted so I think it is
> VISTA
> to blame. XP was not broke so why VISTA?????

Doesn't happen here on Vista......

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