Corrupted word attachments

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When I open word attachments they are all gobbly gook. How do I get them to
revert to English?
 
Rugbylangtonian said:
When I open word attachments they are all gobbly gook. How do I get them to
revert to English?
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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?
 
Gordon said:
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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And secondly what is the extension of these attachments? Is it .docx and
you have Word 2003 or earlier?
 
Gordon said:
And secondly what is the extension of these attachments? Is it .docx and
you have Word 2003 or earlier?
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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.
 
Rugbylangtonian said:
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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If it is a .docx file, Word 2007 will handle it effortlessly.
 
SORRY BUT the problem still exists!!! Any other ideas???
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Step 1: Forward it to another computer and determine if the document
is corrupt or your computer has a problem.
 
+Bob+ said:
Step 1: Forward it to another computer and determine if the document
is corrupt or your computer has a problem.
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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 said:
Thanks but ALL word documents coming in are corrupted so I think it is
VISTA
to blame. XP was not broke so why VISTA?????
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Doesn't happen here on Vista......
 
Maybe you have a virus or maybe your Word is corrupt.

Uninstall Word and reinstall.

Make sure your antivirus definitions are up to date then do a system scan.
 
Bill Yanaire said:
Another brilliant suggestion from Gordon the retard.
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WOW!!! This personal attacking gets us no where!!! Can someone just please
help in a proper manner. Thanks.
 
Gordon said:
Doesn't happen here on Vista......

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What a stupid SHIT you are. Just because it doesn't happen on your computer
doesn't mean that he is wrong. Obviously he has an issue because HE POSTED!
Damn, you are ****ing stupid. I thought you were just slow but you are a
DUNCE.
 
Rugbylangtonian said:
WOW!!! This personal attacking gets us no where!!! Can someone just please
help in a proper manner. Thanks.
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Ignore Yanaire - I plonked the idiot years ago. He can't stand anyone with
more knowledge than him....
 
Gordon said:
Ignore Yanaire - I plonked the idiot years ago. He can't stand anyone with
more knowledge than him....
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I can't stand IDIOTS who don't know how to post. Just FYI.
 
Rugbylangtonian said:
When I open word attachments they are all gobbly gook. How do I get them to
revert to English?
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Despite all the responses I received (none of which worked and some became
rather childish), my son advised me that I must use Adobe reader to open such
a file with VISTA.

1. Right click on the insert in the email.
2. Save as "....." in documents
3. Go to "Documents"
4. Find what you have just saved.
5. Scroll to "Open with"
6. Right click on Adobe.

I still consider VISTA a load of crap.
 
Rugbylangtonian said:
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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Why ever not? Can't you just look at the full file name? And, if you
don't know the file extension, which is what identifies the file type,
what makes you thing it's a Word document to start with?


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killed a great many philosophers.
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Rugbylangtonian said:
Despite all the responses I received (none of which worked and some became
rather childish), my son advised me that I must use Adobe reader to open such
a file with VISTA.
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Then it obviously was *not* a Word document to start with. It's a good
thing you son knows enough about computers to help you.

1. Right click on the insert in the email.
2. Save as "....." in documents
3. Go to "Documents"
4. Find what you have just saved.
5. Scroll to "Open with"
6. Right click on Adobe.

I still consider VISTA a load of crap.
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How does your clearly demonstrated lack of computer and/or software
knowledge lead you to conclude that Vista is crap. "It's a poor workman
that blames his tools."


--

Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot
 
Rugbylangtonian said:
Thanks but ALL word documents coming in are corrupted so I think it is VISTA
to blame. XP was not broke so why VISTA?????
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Works fine here
 
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