Error Opening Attachments

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Nancy

When I try to open a Word or Excel attachment in Outlook,
I get the following message "The system cannot find the
file specified". Word will open, but the file does not
open into Word. If I click on the attachment a second
time (after Word is already open), then the attachment
opens fine.

This same thing happens when trying to open a file in
Windows Explorer by double-clicking it. If the
application Word is already open, it's fine. If it is
not, I get an error that the file cannot be found.

Any suggestions? (We are using Outlook 2000 sr-1
w/Exchange). Thank you!
 
The fact that the same behaviour also occurs when opening directly from
Explorer proves that the problem is not related to Outlook. Anyway; try
Office detect and repair and see if it helps. Also you could delete the File
Type for Word (from Explorer-> Tools-> Folder Options) before running Detect
and Repair.

Good Luck!
 
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