Trouble opening document as attachment in OL

[Pyramid 36]

I'm running Outlook 2003 and Word 2003 (11.80.10.6569) SP2 on Windows XP
Professional v 5.1.2600 SP2 Build 2600 on an Intel PC with 1GB of memory and
an 80GB hard drive.

While in OL03, I've had a problem recently with opening Word documents that
arrive as attachments to email. When I click on the document Word opens (if
it's not already open) and no document is displayed. When I go back to OL03,
I find a message indicating "The system cannot find the specified file".
After closing the message, if I click on the attachment again, the document
opens.

My question is: what do I have to do to have the Word document open the
first time click on it? It worked that way in the past.

 

[Carol]

Below is the answer from you previous post of the other day when you posted
again because you said that nobody replied.

You should always right-click an
attachment and save it before opening. If you don't want to keep the
document after you have perused it, you can always delete it easily. See:
http://www.officearticles.com/outlo...lder_for_attachments_in_microsoft_outlook.htm

Insofar as it always worked before - doing things incorrectly in Word or any
other application for that matter, is like speeding on the highway - sooner
or later you get caught.

 

[Pyramid 36]

Carol,
Thank your for the reply and let me try this another way...

Why is it that until a few weeks ago and as far back as I can remember(say
when if first became possible for email clients to deliver Word documents as
attachments to emails), that every time I clicked on a Word document that was
attached to an email the document would open and that instead I now get a
message that the "specified file cannot be found".

Setting aside for a moment the issue of whether I "should" or should not
save or open attachments, how about someone focus on telling me why I get
that message and why OL/Word are behaving the way they are so I can get back
to "speeding on the highway dangerously" by selecting the option to open the
file that Microsoft has so recklessly provided!

 

[Carol]

I have no idea what has changed on your system or why this is occurring. I
can only tell you how you should approach an attachment in Outlook, which I
have done and you obviously do not agree with. As you may have noticed, this
is a newsgroup concerning Word. I suggest you post your question with an
Outlook newsgroup.

Good luck with your speeding!