All incoming Word docs download as .doc.dot

[byrdwoman]

Just upgraded to Word 2008 for Mac. Here is the second of my bizarre problems: All incoming documents saved by clients as .doc (in older versions of Word) are downloaded as .doc.dot

I understand these are templates. But they were not saved as templates by the sender, and I have not asked them to be saved as templates. What's the scoop? Can I make it stop doing this?

MacBook Pro, OS 10.4.11

 

[John McGhie]

That's a browser bug in Safari.

We are waiting for a patch from Apple/Microsoft to fix it.

In the meantime, I suggest that you use Firefox.

There is more information here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1354752&tstart=0

Hope this helps

Just upgraded to Word 2008 for Mac. Here is the second of my bizarre problems:
All incoming documents saved by clients as .doc (in older versions of Word)
are downloaded as .doc.dot

I understand these are templates. But they were not saved as templates by the
sender, and I have not asked them to be saved as templates. What's the scoop?
Can I make it stop doing this?

MacBook Pro, OS 10.4.11

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[byrdwoman]

Thanks! Firefox works just great to solve this problem.